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Exploratory Testing: Building the Skill

I spent the last couple of days of January and the first few days of February attending two workshops hosted by Cem Kaner and James Bach in Melbourne, Florida. The first was the Exploratory Testing Research Summit, attended by James Bach Jonathan Bach Scott Barber Michael Bolton Elisabeth Hendrickson Cem Kaner Mike Kelly Jonathan Kohl James Lyndsay Robert Sabourin As I expected, it was a very rich and useful discussion. … Read more

The Simplest Things Can Possibly Fail

Jonathan Kohl and I were chatting recently as we often do. (Chatting with Jonathan is so interesting and enjoyable and productive that it sometimes has a serious impact on other forms of productivity.) We’re observing together the evolution of agile development, in terms of what I’m proposing to call “mythodology“. (I invented this term independently, and was sorry to see via a Google search that I wasn’t the first person … Read more

Scott Ambler at TASSQ

Some time in December 2006, I asked Scott Ambler if he would provide us with a presentation at TASSQ, the Toronto Association of System and Software Quality (I’m the program chair for that organization). I was delighted that he agreed to present. I was aware that his remarks would probably be controversial, and that I would agree with some of them and disagree strongly with others. Scott gave his talk … Read more