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Rapid Software Testing

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If you have a chance today then I would recommend reading this article on Rapid Software Testing. It’s an interview with Michael Bolton and gives a great overview of the approach and methodolgy.

I’m signed up for James Bach’s only UK course in March to learn much more about Rapid Software Testing. I cannot wait.

Steve

If you want to sign-up for the course too then you really should. It’s organised by The Ministry of Testing, the new offshoot from Software Testing Club. A 3-day, hands-on class on March 7 – 9th 2012 in Cambridge, UK. Hope to see you there.

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Did You Ever Stop to Think and Forget to Start Again?

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One of my favourite quotes comes from Winnie-the-Pooh.

“Did You Ever Stop to Think and Forget to Start Again?”

Sometimes we all over analyse. Especially in software testing, sometimes we just look too deep, we get lost in the details and we fail to see the big picture. We stop. Sometimes we forget to restart, or when we do restart then the time has past. Have you ever spent a day trying to reproduce a bug, only to find that in the meantime the next stable build had corrected the failure anyway? Have you ever got so side-tracked, maybe installing that piece of software, that the point of installing it in the first place becomes lost?

Focus is important in testing but equally important is timely focus. The importance of the service that software testing provides should not be overlooked, but also we should not be naive enough to assume that others will wait for the service. Time moves on, projects move on, and people move on. Quickly. So do stop to think, but always quickly start again.