There are such things as stupid questions
in Everything, Software Testing
as Bach, johanthan kohl, michael bolton, Weinberg
I am making an appeal to those out there who are managing testers, or are in a position where their decisions influence testers. I loosely follow several testing groups to see what interesting conversations are going on. I don’t often participate, mostly because I can’t commit to having the time to finish a conversation. If [...]
Lessons Learned in Translation 3
in Everything, Japanese, Software Testing
as Bach, exploratory testing, Japanese, lessons learned in software testing, Pettichord, testing in japanese, translation
I wanted to tackle something a little heftier than the last post to see if content that was less straightforward to explain was also challenging to translate. I went with lesson 28 – Exploring requires a lot of thinking. The translation had a few things that were interesting, including the title. I’ll put up the [...]
Lessons Learned in Translation 2
in Everything, Japanese, Software Testing
as Bach, Kaner, learning japanese, lessons learned in software testing, Pettichord, Software Testing, translation
Here’s my latest foray into re-translation. Actually, this seems to be a pretty good translation of the original text. I suspect what I need to do is find some of the more difficult passages and see what I can find around those. I’ve been looking at the shorter entries to this point because hey – [...]
Exploratory testing versus Test cases – Why versus?
in Everything, Software Testing
as exploratory testing, johanthan kohl, michael bolton, michael hunter, scripted testing, Software Testing, Testing
Jonathan Kohl beat me to the punch on this blog entry by a good margin, but since I was already working on this thing, I’d like to go ahead and basically say exactly what he said in probably a far less cogent fashion. A lot has been written about the good and bad things about [...]
Heuristics of Software Testability (in Japanese)
in Everything, Japanese, Software Testing
as heuristics of software testing, Software Testing, testing in japanese
Part of the work I’m doing just now is helping developers to increase their testing skills to handle the bandwidth that my team can’t. I asked Yuka Horino, one of my colleagues to translate James Bach’s Heuristics of Software Testability into Japanese as one of the things to distribute to our dev group. (Thanks Horino-san!) [...]
Lessons Learned in translation
in Japanese, Software Testing
as Bach, Japanese, Kaner, lessons learned in software testing, modeling, Pettichord, translation, Weinberg
So a while back I said I’d be posting translations from the Japanese version of Lessons learned in software testing. Basically, I pulled the trigger way too early on that. There have been a bunch of things all demanding my time, so this was a side-project that I just wasn’t able to get to before [...]
Session-based testing? take session tester for a test drive
in Everything, Software Testing
as johanthan kohl, session based testing, session tester
Jonathan Kohl is at least partially to blame for a new tool to assist testers doing session-based testing called (creatively enough) Session Tester. It’s been in the pipes for a while now and is finally seeing the light of day. It’s still in beta, but looking very promising. They’re also taking change request suggestions, so [...]
Quality: I’m not dead yet
James Bach recently wrote a post entitled Quality is Dead. It brought to mind this particular gem I’ll let you decide which software development role is analogous to the players in the sketch. Testing isn’t dead yet, but it’s generally not being done any favours by anyone around it. The reasons are legion and of [...]
Tester Advocacy Part 4 – The code
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as Software Testing, tester advocacy, testers code of conduct
Some of you that frequent this place might remember that I did a series of loosely-related posts on Tester Advocacy last year. I decided I was going to come up with a tester’s code of conduct by which a tester might conduct oneself. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 A change of job, a change [...]
Learning Japanese? Web testing in Japanese? These might help
in Everything, Miscellaneous, Software Testing
as Japanese, learning japanese, Testing, testing in japanese
For those of you (us) whose Japanese reading skills aren’t comprehensive, you might find some valuable assistance with a firefox plugin called pera-pera kun. It is an extension of the also excellent rikai-chan. It allows you to hover over Japanese words and phrase fragments and get a popup with dictionary / grammatical meanings. I couldn’t [...]