A Test GuyTechnically, we're not cows. We're aardvarks.Whats on my mac- (Found July 5, 2008 ) a quick, partial list of stuff I've installed, and use, on my mac: Aquamacs emacs BackdropMenuShadeMousepose 2 (for screen casts) Carbon Copy Cloner Chicken of the VNC ColloquySnakAdium (IMIRC stuff - take your pick) Firefox 2 Firefox 3 Gizmo Growl iStat Menus (iSlayer.com) iTerm JungleDisk Minuteur NeoOffice Nocturne Parallels Plot (http:plot.micw.eu) Quicksilver Remote Desktop Connection Skype Spamsieve SSH Agent Twitterrific VLChttp://www.daveliebreich.com/blog/?p=144 That overloaded term again- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Testing. What do you mean by testing, or tests, or testers . . . With a hat tip to George Dinwiddie and a post of his on the agile-testing mailing list, I have a few more context-establishing questions: Am I testing in the context of building something, or in the context ...http://www.daveliebreich.com/blog/?p=136 2 process thoughts- (Found July 5, 2008 ) First thought: One of the software development teams I work with has been using xp-style iteration planning and velocity measuring, with cards and points and walls and such. I was standing in front of the wall, talking with one of the coaches, when the following dawned on me: I can tell a product ...http://www.daveliebreich.com/blog/?p=137 What he said- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Jonathan Kohl is right. Often. I suspect when he's not right, he's wrong. Which is a good thing.http://www.daveliebreich.com/blog/?p=138 Requirements Testing- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Well, that takes care of one counter-example. What other exceptions can you think ofhttp://www.daveliebreich.com/blog/?p=139 Things to accept- (Found July 5, 2008 ) I was reading Reader's Digest, and noticed a quote attributed to Brendan Fraser: Everybody has bad hair decades. I've accepted that 2000-2009 is mine. Other ideas I've had to work at accepting in the past include Not everybody is as passionate about work stuff as I am some are more some are less some are ...http://www.daveliebreich.com/blog/?p=140 Subtlely- (Found July 5, 2008 ) There is no subtle way to carry a hula hoop on public transportation. I got the purple one.http://www.daveliebreich.com/blog/?p=141 What is Testing- (Found July 5, 2008 ) I am inspired by a recent blog entry by Ben Simo. To me, software testing is what happens when someone asks me to tell them something about some software system. They might ask me to find problems or bugs. They might ask me if I think the ...http://www.daveliebreich.com/blog/?p=142 Agile Testing description- (Found July 5, 2008 ) From Brian Marick, on the agile-testing list: Simon Baker's written a nice short summary of testing in his Agile project. It pretty much captures my biases. (That's what "nice" means.) linkhttp://www.daveliebreich.com/blog/?p=143 Books I read in High School English- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance I Heard the Owl Call My Name Never Cry Wolf I read these books because they were required for one of my high school English classes. I suspect each has many lessons for testers, or at least stuff I can put forth as what I ...http://www.daveliebreich.com/blog/?p=135 |