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The Four-Day Three-Day Conference

One of the hallmarks of the Conference for the Association for Software Testing is adaptability. Each track session and keynote is followed by a facilitated discussion, and if there’s energy to continue to the discussion when the official time is up, we go into overtime and find a place for the conversation to continue. This is unlike pretty much any conference that I’ve ever been to (although to its credit, … Read more

Search Results

Karen Johnson just posted a blog entry on testing search algorithms. I’m soon going to write an article on accidental test coverage. The intersection of these two topics can be found here, based on a search I recently did in the frequently asked questions list on an airline Web site. Search Results for “power for laptops” 1. Can I use my laptop during my flight? 2. Where can I locate … Read more

Secrets of the CAST Cognoscenti

(This post is here only for historical reasons. Broken links have been redacted.) So it’s after May 31, and you’re all depressed over having missed Early Bird registration for the Conference for the Association for Software Testing. So maybe you haven’t realized that there’s still a way to get the Early Bird rate PLUS an added benefit. If you become a member of the AST, that’s a scant fifty bucks. … Read more

They Want To Have Used Your Software

CBC Radio is one of the things to make a Canadian proud. There’s a wealth of stuff that I find valuable, entertaining and informative–Ideas (a largely open forum for all kinds of interesting topics); As It Happens (telephone-based interviews with people, usually on the where the action is happening, on all kinds of issues all over the world); Randy’s Vinyl Tap (in which the former lead guitarist for the Guess … Read more

Jessica Hagy: General Systems Thinker

If anyone asks me what general systems thinking is about, I will from henceforth point them to any Jessica Hagy index card that has an X/Y chart with an -OR- in the caption. Or I may just point everyone to it anyway. This stuff is absolutely wonderful. http://indexed.blogspot.com/ and also http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/indexed/ Note that I spared you the by-now obligatory reminder to register for the CAST Conference. Oh, damn!–no I didn’t.