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How I use modelling in software testing

How I use modelling in software testing

My testing can look like ‘fly by the seat of my pants” testing at times. There’s nothing more I like to do than grab a new product and jump straight into testing. No namby pamby reading of requirements by me! No, I want to get straight to the source

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Courage in Exploratory Testing

Exploratory Testing takes software testing skill. It also requires the tester be courageous. Let me explain. Exploratory testing is an approach, not a technique. Exploratory Testing is simultaneous learning, design and execution. What information we learn about a product, helps dictate our tests providing us with information that we can

Growing your own

Growing your own

So, I’m sitting here in my office on a beautiful Australian spring day. The sun is shining brightly, the air is slightly fresh sending wafts of scent from the spring flowers. Its a good time to be alive and its a good time to be thinking of growth and

You little beauty

You little beauty

We Aussies are a pretty laid back lot but a software testing event in Adelaide this November has a whole heap of software testers tapping their toes in anticipation for the first Australian Workshop on Software Testing (OZWST) to be held 8th & 9th November in Adelaide. I’m one

That coverage problem

That coverage problem

Thanks mostly to the BBST classes the AST run, I’ve come to understand and appreciate the impossibility of complete testing and the challenges surrounding ‘complete test coverage’. I find 100% testing coverage a pretty meaningless phrase. Imagine trying the calculate the amount of water in a swimming pool by

Upcoming Software Testing Courses

I’m heading to CAST 2012 [http://www.associationforsoftwaretesting.org/conference/cast-2012/] this year (July 16th – 18th) and so I’ll be in the San Jose/ San Francisco area if anyone is looking for an impromptu workshop on Exploratory Testing [https://testingtimes.com.au/services/academy] or Coaching Software Testers

In pursuit of coaching excellence

In pursuit of coaching excellence

When you coach a tester you’re working in an environment that dynamically changes as both the student and coach work through a coaching task. If you look at the diagram below you can see all the different attributes that might change throughout a coaching session. Anne-Marie Charrett & James