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I’m a person who loves the technical side of testing. When allowed, I like to get under the cover and look at the code I’m testing. Not that I can always understand it, but the code may trigger new testing ideas to investigate.On a similar vein, I enjo…

In the world of software testing, there are many testing techniques. The primary objective of a testing technique is to help the tester do some actual testing. Every technique has its strengths and its weaknesses. Some techniques can help decide who do…

“Why didn’t you find this bug?”, “Why didn’t you test that?” These questions can drive a tester to madness with worry, stress, fear, the sort of feelings that often get tagged as negative feelings, the ones to avoid. But feelings aren’t negative or pos…

Hi one and all,Once again I’ve failed to update this blog.I wish I had a good reason for it, but I don’t.As a way to get your favour back, I’ve decided to post a totaly brand new set of cartoons on this blog. The plan was to print them in an e-bo…

The EuroStar conference programme for 2011 came out today. The line-up looks very promising.  At last year’s conference I got to meet many great testers. Rikard Edgren is one of them, he writes for The Testing Eye, and as far as I know, he is the on…

Hi all,Tony Bruce (twitter: tonybruce77) is organising a fantastic software testing workshop event this May at London: London Tester Gathering 2011. The programme looks very promising and it’s free to attend, the only bad thing is that they aren’t many…

A couple of weeks ago I blogged about the cartoon tester’s 1st year. One thing I failed to mention (purposefully), is the fact that over Christmas I accepted a new software testing job at a different company. I’m really excited about the role an…

CARTOON WARNING: My wife told me this cartoon is only funny to 6 year old boys…