Software Testing and Development Blog Posts

Have you tried to build your own definition of Software Testing? One that you can refine as you learn more stuff and the years go by?

I seem to have been tardy in updating the web site (6 years)

I struggle to remember exact dates for some items. I did a Keynote at the London Tools Fair on Alternative tools, and I hosted a panel session at the Tools Fair a few years later. I did a workshop at the Sigist that I can not remember the date of, and I know I have missed a few other things off the list.

I generally test web apps. And Web apps generally use an email address as the unique identifier. So by test number 2, some of you may have run out of email addresses to test with.

Live Talk

Vimeo. Links to the slides and videos are available on the message board.

Practice Session

I also uploaded the practice session of the talk to youtube part1 part2.

Part 1

Part 2

Have you had anyone ask you a question about estimation? I get asked these types of questions and I suspect that the person really wants answers about how to communicate and justify their guesses.

I use the free community edition of Burp Suite in my work.

Burp Suite is an HTTP Proxy which allows me to Observe, Interrogate and Manipulate HTTP Messages.

Honestly who doesn’t enjoy reading conspiracy theories? Who doesn’t enjoy putting on the Helm of Paranoia.

I use paranoia as a learning strategy and as a testing strategy.

You can too…

My testing style, attitude and approach has had many influences. I only recently realised that one of them has become very mainstream.

Some words in Software Testing are confusing, we could use normal English language to be clearer.

I have a particular fondness for Taoist classics and I have a fair few translations of the Tao Te Ching on my bookshelf. I love the feeling of simplicity generated when reading.