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Your User Is Not You

The title of this post, “Your User Is Not You”, is cheerfully cribbed from a fellow named David Platt, who wrote a pointed and very funny book called Why Software Sucks…and What You Can Do About It. He also gave a terrific talk at SD West 2007, excerpts of which you can see here and here. Attending that talk was one of the highlights of that year for me. Today … Read more

Counting the Wagons

A member of Linked In asks if “a test case can have multiple scenarios”. The question and the comments (now unreachable via the original link) reinforce, for me, just how unhelpful the notion of the “test case” is. Since I was a tiny kid, I’ve watched trains go by—waiting at level crossings, dashing to the window of my Grade Three classroom, or being dragged by my mother’s grandchildren to the … Read more