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I've owned a blog since 2006 and have been writing ever since here are my posts.

Straight up, no ice....

Straight up, no ice....

You know the way sometimes, a post, or even a comment on a post gets you thinking. A recent comment by Phil Kirkham on Georgia Motoc’s blog got my subconscious brain working overtime. So much to the point where I feel compelled to put finger to keyboard and write

Software Test Reports for Startups

My test reports have deviated a lot since the early days of testing. Nowadays, first and foremost I provide an opinion of the software. I make sure I highlight both positives and negatives that I see in the product. Naturally, I provide a list of bugs I find, but I

Hackers, Blogs and PC's.... Oh My!!!

What a week! My ‘problem’ antennas have been twitching this week. It started off with my blog and user access. ‘Hedosnorrenny’ had decided to become a contributor to my blog. Without me asking. There he (or she?) was, proudly displayed in my WordPress ‘users’. So, methinks, time to perform some

Do your bugs only glow when its dark?

Do your bugs only glow when its dark?

Have you ever been in the situation where no-one else can find and repeat the bugs you find? Perhaps you have a canny knack of finding unusual bugs, or maybe it’s time to improve and update how you write bug reports! I do a lot of offsite exploratory testing

Will video kill the written bug?

Will video kill the written bug?

I’ve recently finished some remote testing using exploratory testing techniques. I decided to test out a couple of new (to me) techniques. The first one was using Session Tester to track my effort. The other was creating short videos of difficult to articulate bugs. First a bit about my

Dublin Software Testers Meetup

Dublin Software Testers Meetup

A reminder to anyone in Dublin or if you are in Dublin in Business, to come along to the Dublin Software Tester Meetup. Details are: Time: June 16, 2009 from 7:30pm to 9:30pm Location: the Library Bar, Central Hotel Street: Exchequer Street, City/Town: Dublin, Ireland Website or

I have a dream..a software testing dream

I have a dream..a software testing dream

Tester Tested [http://testertested.blogspot.com/2009/05/testing-experience-magazine-voice-of.html] wrote a post on the amount of ISTQB advertising (direct and indirect) a testing magazine had. His main point was, if its a Professional Magazine for all testers why does it lean to ISTQB all the time? Talk was made