Wednesday, 1 May 2019

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My favourite techniques. As my lightning keynote at Star East today, I put in a plea not to forget some of the "old things", eve...
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Thursday, 26 May 2016

Test automation as an orchard

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At StarEast in May 2016, I was kindly invited to give a lightning keynote, which I did on this analogy. Hope you find it interesting and use...
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Sunday, 1 November 2015

The wrong question: What percentage of tests have you automated?

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At a couple of recent conferences, I became aware that people are asking the wrong question with regard to automation. There was an ISTQB s...
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Tuesday, 8 April 2014

Testers should learn to code?

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It seems to be the "perceived wisdom" these days that if testers want to have a job in the future, they should learn to write code...
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Thursday, 21 June 2012

Is it dangerous to measure ROI for test automation?

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I have been a fan of trying to show ROI for automation in a way that is simple enough to understand easily, and provides a way of showing ...
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Wednesday, 25 January 2012

How long does it take to write a book?

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A number of people have asked me this, since our new book is now out. This book took us 2 and a half years. This doesn’t include the effort...
Saturday, 5 February 2011

Part 3. Certification schemes do not assess tester skill?

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(Continuing from Parts 1 and 2, certification is evil? and some history about ISTQB) Now I would like to say something about the criticism...
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Part 2. A bit of history about ISTQB certification

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(Continuing from Part 1 where I was surprised at reactions to certification as "evil") In the early 1990s, software testing was ...
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