Gamification is the practice of wrapping an activity in a game like context to make the process more interesting. It’s pervasive and examples are everywhere. At its worst it sounds like psychological warfare upon customers to increase potential for addictive or compulsive use hopefully resulting in higher profits, but there are cases where its power … [Read more…]
Ah, your friendly every day mug. A temporary home for your coffee, tea, hot chocolate, common enough that you may use one everyday. So why bother spending the time to consider it for testing? Other posts in this series have been inspired by interview questions I have heard people be asked. Testing a mug falls … [Read more…]
A lot of people think testers can only test things with a GUI. If we can’t click it or touch it then we are out of our depth. A key area of software applications today is not GUI based, it is the engines that power the applications, it is the API’s. Some companies only product … [Read more…]
This post is inspired by a blog post I really enjoyed recently by Colin Cherry, A is for Apathy. In it he describes how apathy and ego inhibit companies engaging in testing despite measurable incentive to do so. So check it out it’s worth the read. Ego Get’s In The Way Ego: A person’s sense … [Read more…]