7 habits of highly effective testers

By on September 17, 2009 in Best Practices, Management, On-Going Improvement

I’m currently reading a book by Stephen R. Covey called “The seven habits of highly effective people”, highly recommended if you need to understand how to balance and focus your life and your work. The book got me thinking about the fact that looking back over my career I have also noticed some habits that [...]

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Welcome to the United States, we’re sorry but the system is down…

By on September 7, 2009 in Curious & Off-Topic, Test Process

I have nothing but the top-most respect for immigration officials at US airports. They sit all day quickly interviewing people who barely speak English, making sure no unwanted person is allowed to enter the US.  Not an easy task regardless how you look at it; and last week I was able to see how this [...]

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My mom get’s it, the Dev Manager on the other hand…

By on August 23, 2009 in Management, On-Going Improvement, Test Process

Just read a thread in the softwaretestingclub about explaining testing to your mother, and it got me thinking about the subject and 2 conversations I had this passed week. The truth is that initially I was not able to explain to my mother what I do for a living, I will give that credit to [...]

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Coffee, Nature & Software Testing…

By on August 16, 2009 in Conferences & Seminars, Testing Intelligence

It’s been a while since my last post, I’ve been a little busy on a couple of projects and some Testing & QA Seminars. But now we’re back, or not… I’m actually in Costa Rica, as some of you might know I was born & raised here so this is kind of a friends & [...]

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There really is a difference to CAST

By on July 20, 2009 in Conferences & Seminars, Curious & Off-Topic

I just got back (alive) from CAST2009 in Colorado Springs, where I did a presentation on Testing Intelligence. It was my first CAST and thus I wanted to share some of my observations and comments. My presentation itself went pretty well (I think) and many people agreed with the TI approach, no surprises there.  But [...]

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In the CAST conference this week

By on July 13, 2009 in Curious & Off-Topic

This week I am in Colorado Springs in the Annual Conference of the Association of Software Testing. I will be talking tomorrow (Tuesday) about Testing Intelligence. They even published and interview about my and the topic, so if you are not attending and want to read about it you can check it out here. I [...]

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