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Video Player is Too Small to Play Vevo Youtube Video on Facebook
I wonder what the point was for making sure that video player is of a certain size to play the video in this case? Also, how ... -
Weinberg Fever!
If it’s a disease, I’ve got it. I blame Scott Barber. ;0) You see I’m writing a book, and through the process Scott pointed me to: ... -
Scripted Testing
I've been trying to grasp why I dislike scripted testing so much, but a number of new testers seem to value it. I have a ...
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Web First for Mobile
My mobile performance research focuses on mobile web. I don’t analyze native apps. Why? I believe in the openness of the Web. I don’t like ... -
Reset Selected Radio Button using JavaScript
You could use JavaScript to reset a selected radio button and test if a value is required on update. Here's a description of running JavaScript in ...
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MindMaps + Testing + Pinterest
I’ve been wondering recently if Pinterest could be of use to the testing community. I’ve always felt that ... -
Enabling Learning through Social Media – LetsTest 2012 Conference
With the advent of social media, it is now possible to view, participate and share conferences from afar. There is no more real need ... -
The Right Stuff
You cannot be anything you want to be --but you can be a lot more of who you already are. - Tom Rath, ... -
The Right Stuff?
You cannot be anything you want to be -- but you can be a lot more of who you already are. - Tom Rath, StrengthsFinder ... -
The Long Tail of Technical Debt
The other day, I was reviewing test execution times across several projects. The results were not surprising. A small number of tests consumed a lot ...
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Pair Testing
The Test Bash has come and gone and what a great 1st conference it was from the ... -
DDP & STC... IMHO TBTSSB
The latest issue of the Testing Plannet is available now, it includes a centre spread (which looks just great!): "Ten reasons why you fix ... -
the caption winner is... [and a cartoon about freedom!]
Thank you all for your suggestions. I found it really hard to decide which one was ... -
Guess the caption
In a recent post I asked if you could guess what my original idea for the cartoon was. I received loads of feedback about the ... -
The art of bug reporting
This cartoon was first printed in the STC's The Testing Planet.... Like a good ... -
How a developer feels
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Before Computers
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Curiosity. If cats were testers
I did a few of the cat and mouse cartoons last Summer but somehow failed to post them in 2011. Here's one now: -
Testability Explained
James Bach has written up a list of heuristics around Testability. Definitely worth a read. -
Sh*t Testers Say
There are quite a few videos going round on YouTube about rubbish certain people say about certain stuff (YouTube it, some are very funny!).
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Weekend Testing Americas: Testing WikiMedia
Participants in the Telerik Testing Summit (more about that in a future blog post – just some awesome testers getting together to explore new frontiers ... -
The Agile Testing Quadrants Explained
Marekj (@rubytester on Twitter) whipped up an awesome graphical explanation of the Agile Testing Quadrants, along with an animated sketch. If you’re new to the ...
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Learning for Testers at Belgium Testing Days
I’ve been writing a lot on SearchSoftwareQuality and Techwell (aka Stickyminds) lately, no time to blog. I have lots to say so I hope I ... -
“Where Should I Start Looking….”
My friend and excellent agile coach Michele Sliger, co-author of The Software Project Manager’s Bridge to Agility , recently emailed me this question that she ...
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A Product Owner’s Perspective
I had the opportunity to talk with Gil Zilberfeld, product owner with Typemock, a software company whose products are designed to help developers with their ...
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The Phoenix Checklist – Mind Map
I’ve written about the Phoenix Checklist before here and think the list is so important that I include a quick reference on my site here. ...
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Running Lean Book Review
One of the things that strikes me about the book Running Lean is how practical almost all of the advice is. It’s not a long ...
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Getting a grip on exploratory testing
Last week we had the pleasure of inviting James Lyndsay to our offices in rainy Basingstoke for a two day course on “getting a grip ...
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Jazz…Nice
One of the books that has made a big difference to how I’ve been thinking about teams, people and the dynamics that go on as ...
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Agile South Coast Meetup
I attended the Agile South Coast Meetup last night in Southampton, the first one I’ve been to in about 3 years. It was good to ...
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Hacking Down a Backlog
Oftentimes, when we get into doing a lot of things, we find ourselves either dropping items we want to work on, or we seem to ...
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Summer QAmp Brain Dump: Need BRAAIINS!!!
It probably has not gone unnoticed that I am posting less frequently than usual. There's a few reasons for that, and one of them is ...
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Cucumber Nerds: Can Color and Pipes Coexist?
I think I have gotten to a point where I have done all I can do to try to figure out a problem, and I'm ... -
Learning to Tell Different Stories
Motoko Kusanagi from "Ghost in the Shell"One of the things I have enjoyed with my children ... -
Cross "Training": Shaking Up the Home Office
This may either turn out to be a corny diversion or the healthiest thing I've ever done for ...
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Let's call the calling-off off
There's been a fair bit of discussion lately on the test-o-sphere about the status and the future of context-driven testing. I believe Scott ...
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What Matt Is Up To
It's been a busy couple of months.Test Coach Camp Heats UpFirst off, Test Coach Camp has reached it's a viable ...
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Your name in print - in STQA Magazine!
Each issue in STQA Magazine we have an interview column that features questions from the readers and the greater intarwebs - it's called "Ask ...
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Meetup in NYC - Next Week!
I'll be in New York City Next week; there is a software testers meetup including a dinner sponsored by the Financial Services Special Interest Group ...
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Back from Vacation, Plus More Articles!
It's been a little quiet around here at Creative Chaos lately. Let me tell you a little bit about what's been going on ...
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Bish Bash Bosh
Friday March 23 was The Test Bash, the ...
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Being active
A few posts ago I wrote about how people were doing testing practise after I started a thread on the STCToday I ...
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One Thread Can Make A Suit
I noticed on Twitter last night that there was going ... -
Testing Turtles
"I was born not knowing and have only had ... -
Whaddya Think ?
A recent blog post by Alan Page about Learning ...
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Happy Birthday, Quality Tree Software
Last month marked the 15 year anniversary of my decision to go into business for myself. Over the last decade and a half I have ...
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Question from the Mailbox: What Metrics Do You Use in Agile?
A reader wrote me to ask: I know what metrics to use to manage a traditional phased project. But what metrics do you use on ...
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That’s a Nice Theory
Dale Emery has taught me an enormous amount about using resistance as a resource. I’m grateful. I use his ideas every time I set foot ...
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It’s a Book!
Happy New Year! A funny thing happened on my way to inbox 0 last week: I wrote a book in 4 days. I didn’t mean ...
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Agile Adjustments: a WordCount Story
I originally wrote this for the AYE website in 2007. It’s no longer published there so I’m posting it here. Despite itching to tweak some ...
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Good old times
Almost every week, I get some updates notification on my smartphone. Fortunately I can decide on my own ... -
Automated Test Script Desease #1
If it is not a new unexpected confirmation dialog box that shows up, then it may be a ... -
New procedure for build breakers
A new habit is about to start and it reminds me to the Dark Ages were thieves were ... -
Giraffe Accessible, The Workaround
A workaround was quickly found, although on the long run, it wasn't the most comfortable position. -
Giraffe Accessible
A reference to compatibility in general. For instance, browser compatibility. What works for FF, doesn't necessarily work for ...
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Thoughts from Let's Test 2012
Date: 7-9 May 2012Location: Runö, SwedenSite: lets-test.comThis is a brain dump of thoughts (partial in content and with more analysis later)......
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Indicators, Testing & Wine Tasting
The other day I was discussing a problem with a developer. Essentially, it was about how to judge feedback from a continuous integration system next ...
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Let's Test Conference Carnival #1
It's now just over three weeks to Let's Test, a conference first in Europe with the focus on context-driven testing, for testers, by testers -> ...
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Silent Evidence in Testing
A: All the test cases passed!B: But the feature does not work for the customer...I expect this, or something similar, is not ...
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The Linear Filter Trap
Or: Illustrating Systems Thinking with Proximate and Distal AnalysisI was having a discussion the other day where we were looking at some problems ...
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Error 37, Where Are You?
Apparently, they’re on the Blizzard servers: The Diablo 3 servers are at full capacity, preventing many from playing the game. Players across the globe are ...
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Measuring and Improving Risk Intelligence
Here’s a book excerpt in the Wall Street Journal on improving your judgment of risk: Most of us have to estimate probabilities every day. Whether ...
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Log a Defect on Captain Sulu
George Takei shared this photograph on Facebook: Class, who can tell me what’s wrong with this picture? -
QA Makes Software Development More Like Sports
A Non Sequitor cartoon from April 9, 2012: Strangely enough, QA does just that. And, yeah, I am a month behind on the local newspaper. ... -
QA Music: Indestructible
“Indestructible” by Disturbed. It sounds better really, really loud.
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Announcing GATE 02
The second GATE workshop will take place on September 8th 2012 in Munich, Germany. GATE is a workshop that falls into the series of peer ... -
Let’s Test: If it’s not context-driven, you can’t do it here
At the Let’s Test conference, the first ever context-driven testing conference in Europe, Michael Bolton delivered the first keynote on Monday morning. He was talking ... -
Coderetreat goes testautomation
I remember a talk from Cory Foy back at XP 2010 in Trondheim, Norway. He referred to Corey Haines as the happiest guy in the ... -
Let’s Test prequel with Ilari Henrik Aegerter
As a prequel to the Let’s Test conference in May, I interviewed some of the European context-driven testers. Today we have Ilari Henrik Aegerter, the ... -
Let’s Test prequel with Martin Jansson
As a prequel to the Let’s Test conference in May, I interviewed some of the European context-driven testers. Today we have Martin Jansson, one of ...
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On Too Much Process or Too Much, Meh, Whatever
Process - noun - 1. a series of actions or steps taken in order to achieve a particular end (Oxford English ...
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On Managers and Mothers and Bush Trimmers
As I'm writing this, it is the evening of Mother's Day in the US. Because the weather was lovely, much time was spent in the ...
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On Managing Testers, or Being a Coach
I had a revelation recently that I wish I could have had some time ago, like years. It may have made me a better employee, ...
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On Controlling Testing, or Being the Boss
I had a revelation recently that I wish I could have had some time ago, like years. It may have made me a better employee, ...
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On Passion, or Be Careful What You Wish For
Recently I was reminded of something that was said several years ago.The Several Years Ago part: In the middle of a project that ...
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Foreign Exchanges
It started with this tweet from Ajay Balamurugadas (@ajay184f): “I use Texter to write the steps for my bugs. Jing to capture screenshots. Brain to ... -
“Winning…”
Recently the Mega Millions jackpot prompted people to play in droves. News outlets from all over the world ran with the story because it was ...
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CAST-ed
Well, CAST 2011 has shipped. A few minor bugs, but it looks like the value far outweighed the problems. James and I wanted it to ...
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Putting Things in Context
In the movie “The Right Stuff” there’s a scene where character Chuck Yeager is barreling up to the sound barrier in the Bell X-1. He’s ...
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A man of auction
Wow, what a New Year already… Opportunities are sometimes fleeting, but this one wouldn’t let me go… In two weeks, I’ll be in California to ...
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Regular readers of this blog may have noticed that I slow down from time to time, which may signify that either (a) I'm sick or ... -
Why so successful and durable?
At November's AYE Conference, participant Michael Mahlberg asked if he could interview me for a German magazine. The interview and his article about AYE ...
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Perhaps the nicest feature of WIGGLE charts is the way they can be used with just about anybody's diagrammatic technique.The following figure shows ... -
The Order of Maria Theresa
Today's idea is embodied in a medal established in Austria. According to Wikipedia, the military order of Maria Theresa. "It was specifically given ... -
Where Do Bad Managers Come From?
On a recent flight out of Chicago, I found myself seated next to Jack, a IT manager in a medium-sized company. Jack was on ...
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Fletcher Lynd Seagull
I am not Jonathan Livingston Seagull. James Bach is. I am Fletcher Lynd Seagull. At a time when I was asking how do I fly ...
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Weinberg on more than writing - the Fieldstone method
11th March, 2012 in Bangalore was a beautiful Sunday. Now that it is almost over, I can use the past tense "was". Just the weather ...
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Conferences & Workshop update : Bangalore, Chennai & Pune
To those in Bangalore, Chennai and Pune, I am here doing some workshops and conferences. Agile India 2012 - Bangalore : February 17 - 19 First, I ...
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How Pradeep teaches software testing - Part 4
If you didn't know how Part 4 came up? Here is how it came. I first wrote Part 1, then Part 2 and then Part ...
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Truth about test plan document & test case document
Not that you don't know. Truth About Test Plan Documents 98% of test plan documents that are created are not updated, maintained or cared beyond sign off. The ...
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I am the Queen of Defocus
TweetI remember the day I earned the self acclaimed title of Queen of Defocus. I had been testing for about 3 years and had been ...
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Training Testers
TweetI’m having a complete blast at the moment adding the finishing touches to my upcoming workshops in Dublin,Belfast and London. The Dublin and Belfast Exploratory ...
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Mary Mary Quite Contrary…
TweetMary, Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With silver bells, and cockle shells, And pretty maids all in a row. Its an old ...
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18 Testing Challenges from Santhosh Tuppad - Part II
This is Part II of my response to Santhosh Challenge. Part I is HERE 8. If you are the solution architect for a retail website which ...
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18 Testing Challenges from Santhosh Tuppad - Part I
My friend cum colleague Santhosh Tuppad posted 18 testing challenges to the testing community on his blog a month ago. I have had lengthy conversations ...
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First Guest Blog Post on Web Service Attacks
There's no such thing as a new year. The way we measure time is entirely artificial. The only time that counts is right now. Worrying ...
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Social Engineering Attacks
Social Engineering Attack The art of tricking vulnerable and unsuspecting people into revealing confidential information like passwords, credit card numbers, social security numbers, login credentials to ...
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Claims Testing (Mindmap)
Claims Testing P.S : This is in continuation with an old blog post on Claims Testing. Regards, Parimala Shankaraiah
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Paul Holland is Now Teaching Rapid Software Testing
For the first time in a long time, I am prepared to endorse a new trainer of the Rapid Software Testing class: Paul Holland. Paul ...
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Bharani Asks About Daily Practice
Bharani from India is a novice tester who appears to have a lot of energy. She recently emailed me this: Sir, I need one small ...
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Rob Sabourin at the Rapid Testing Intensive
I’m delighted that Rob Sabourin, creator of the Just-In-Time Testing class, will be with us during the Rapid Testing Intensive, in July. He’s coming as ...
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Mechanical or Magical? Noah Says “Neither.”
As I was having dinner with Noah Höjeberg tonight, he said an interesting thing. “Some people think testing is mechanical, and that’s bad enough. But ...
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How I Invented Sympathetic Testing
I did not invent sympathetic testing. Anyone who says I claim to have invented it will have only read the title of this post, but ...
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Survey: Testing and Startups
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Leaner Testing
One of the great things about being the editor of The Testing Planet is it forces me to walk the testing talk. My conscience won’t ...
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March 2012 – Issue 7
Get The Testing Planet! You can download a single digital issue (contains PDF, mobi and epub versions) or for better value become a Subscriber to ... -
Changing Times.
We recently announced how The Testing Planet is changing. Please read how on our blog. It is important! We hope to make a smooth transition. ... -
The State of Security? (And free downloads)
Learn from the past, and work towards a better future. As testers we always seem keen to learn about security testing, but the reality of ...
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Testing for Kids – Free Download
Would you like to see the next generation of testers to start their training young? I would! I teach my boys about testing in a ... -
Evil Tester is back. Ask him a question, if you dare
The Evil Tester Question Time is back! This is your chance to ask a very Evil Tester a question and get some scrumptious and devious ... -
An Interview with Stefan Butlin – Founder of TestPad
We recently came across a new test management tool, TestPad, which takes a different approach to test management. Along our journey we met and spoke ... -
The Monday Times
[View the story "The Monday Times" on Storify]
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How To Test Documentation
[Got a testing tip? Why not share it?] This is a follow up to the previous article - Documentation and The Tester. Proof Read for Spelling ...