Notes, Bugs, and Issues
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Entries from 2008
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The Agile Revolution: Champion of an Era Gone By?
Has the impact that a development model makes been diminished by the advent of Web 2.0 and continuous integration technologies? -
Have you ever done acceptance testing?
Link to a survey about acceptance testing you might have done, either on the Delivery side or the Customer side, to be used as a base for research by Microsoft's Patterns and Practices team. -
Be Joe Schmoe
Why exploratory testing is still relevant. -
Follow up on Bug Investigation
Earlier in this space, I wrote an entry about Bug Investigation. But there is an important component I did not even begin to talk about - bug advocacy. -
I am a Software Test Engineer. I am a Software Tester. I am a Software User.
Only the creativity of the tester limits what or who the tester can be. -
My name is Nat Burnett and I am a Software Test Engineer
What does it mean to be a Software Test Engineer? -
CAST 2008
The Conference of the Association for Software Testing is hosting its annual conference - this year in Toronto, July 14 - 16. -
Acceptance Testing Guidance
I've been working on a project at Microsoft that I'm actually allowed (and enouraged) to publicly disclose. My mission is to work with the Patterns and Practices team to produce useful information (guidance) around the idea of acceptance testing. -
If you want to practice testing skill, play chess
Chess and Software Projects -
Bug Investigation
I've been to many testing conferences and workshops in my testing career (maybe you have, too), and I've noticed an interesting pattern. Speakers talk about all kinds of methods, techniques, approaches, technologies, tools, heuristics, mindsets, skill sets and even theories that will help you find bugs, but rarely what to do when you succeed in finding one! -
Plenty Questions
Here's a little game to help you think of context when testing. It's called "Plenty Questions." -
Can vs. Will
Whenever I run a test that passes, I never stop wondering if it will pass when the customer does the same thing.