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5 Ideas on how “User Profiles” can Improve Your Testing

By on April 11, 2010 in Best Practices, Test Process

User Profiles is a powerful tool to use when testing. Following are 5 ideas you can implement as part of your process that will increase the value and effectiveness of your testing process.

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

By on March 15, 2010 in Best Practices, On-Going Improvement, Test Process

The most difficult step when starting an improvement project is the first one. Many times we fall into the trap of working on monumental changes, other times we simply let everyday things stand in the way.
The only solution is to stop thinking about change and start doing the change RIGHT NOW!

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Find a testing smiley and put it in your desk!

By on February 17, 2010 in Best Practices, Management

There’s a weird believe that we Testers need to be pessimistic in order to be good / professional / successful. In a course I impart (where I am required to use slides made by a colleague) there is even a bullet saying that good testers require “professional pessimism” as one of our main traits. I [...]

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What Software Testing can learn from Basketball, games are won with a Great Defense

By on February 15, 2010 in Best Practices, On-Going Improvement, Test Process

I beg forgiveness to all NBA fans, since this post relates mainly to all the rest of the basketball leagues (College-league, Euro-league, etc.) where most players are mere mortals I read a comment on a newspaper this weekend saying that “Team X” had won a game due to its defense.  This reminded me of a [...]

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When your message is “clear as mud”

By on January 24, 2010 in Best Practices, Management, Testing Intelligence

There is a Marketing Saying along the lines of: “If you do something but you don’t advertise it, it’s like you didn’t do it at all” This saying is also very accurate in the case of testing, where if you do a test that finds critical issues but then you fail to report them it [...]

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The ones who never stop learning new stuff

By on October 11, 2009 in Best Practices, On-Going Improvement

Some of the most impressive testers (and some of the greatest developers) I’ve worked with have one personal attribute that sets them apart from the rest of the team: They are always learning new things to apply to their work. Take a look around your work-place and think about one or two members of your [...]

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