This week I decided to go international and participated in my first Weekend Testing Europe session. It’s not region locked or anything, the sessions offered by the Weekend Testing Americas I’ve attended have all had an international cast of characters as well. Mostly it offers people more convenient times, although I have had my curiosity … [Read more…]
This Weekend Testing session was a bug hunt on LightBot, which is a game designed to help people learn programming concepts. The Balancing Act One of the first things I realized is testing a game is hard! I put my testing hat on and started looking at the game. I had to try the game … [Read more…]
In my last post I took a look at some software testing definitions provided by the ISTQB. In that post I stated I did not think there was such a thing as static testing, which has sparked some debate so let’s dive a little deeper. Static Testing It’s defined by the ISTQB as: Testing of … [Read more…]
It’s really hard to explain to people why testing is a valuable activity if you can’t describe what it is you are doing and why you are doing it. Intuition is a big part of testing, but intuition is fed by understanding. A good detective or doctor might have a hunch, but that hunch is … [Read more…]