Archive for March, 2010

The hardest step to improving your tests is the first one!

Look back and think about the last time you tried to improve something in your life; when you decided to quit smoking, or when you said that it was time to start going to the gym, or even when you decided to stop drinking too much coffee during the day in the office. Realizing that you needed to make the change was easy, but the first challenging test you had was to take the initial step and start the journey towards your personal improvement.

Fighting the power of inertia - it’s not really your fault since it is always circumstantial… NOT! More >

Do you think software testing is still in the Dark Ages? Turn on the lights!!!

I read a blog by James Whittaker analyzing how for him Software Testing is still stuck in the 90s while the rest of the (technological) world has evolved greatly.  Today I will disagree with Mr. Whittaker since I think we as testers have not thrown all we’ve done away and we have seen real advancement in many areas of our work field.

As he writes in his post, back in 1990 I was a 16 year old high-school student, and as he says I didn’t have an email address (I will say that even in Costa Rica I did have a PC More >