I’ve been around long enough to see many different efforts to improve software quality fail. Often the ideas are fairly one-dimensional rather than wholistic. I’ll give you one example.
Let’s say there’s a decision that everyone must use continuous integration in the next release. Even if it’s not sold as …
I originally wrote this when I worked at Apple, and it was the most popular thing I ever wrote.
This document comes from a long career in software testing where I went through more than a dozen full release cycles.
I’ve executed and observed 5 major types of testing, seen …
This comes from a long career of software testing where I went through more than a dozen release cycles, noting which testing methods work best.
We’re all familar with the following troubleshooting steps when encountering a problem on our computers or phones:
A number of companies use the word dogfood testing to describe part of their software testing process. I believe it’s a powerful and essential part of testing as I mention in My hierarchy of testing. However, it means different things to different people, so I wanted to describe how …
This is based on working in the software world for quite some time, ranging from technical support to consulting to quality assurance to software engineering. And from observing people at every chance I get. While some things improve in software, some pesky things stay the same and repeat themselves whenever …