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Pressing the Green Button

For years at conferences and meetups and in social media, I have been hearing regularly from testers who tell me that they must “sign off” on the product or deployment before it is released to production, or to review by the client. The testers claim that, after they have performed some degree of testing work, they must “approve” or “reject” the product. Here’s a fairly typical verbatim report from one … Read more

I Represent the User! And We All Do

As a tester, I try to represent the interests of users. Saying the user, in the singular, feels like a trap to me. There are usually lots of users, and they tend to have diverse and sometimes competing interests. I’d like to represent and highlight the interests of users that might have been forgotten or overlooked. There’s another trap, though. As Cem Kaner has pointed out, it’s worth remembering that … Read more

Who Needs the Testers?

This post is a lightly-edited transcript from a LinkedIn article, which was itself adapted and extended from a recent thread on Twitter. Another day, another story that goes like this. A colleague tells me that he’s working with an organization by training developers in how to do testing. That sounds like a pretty good idea at first, although most developers are already pretty good at the kind of testing that … Read more

If We Do Sanity Testing Before Release, Do We Have To Do Regression Testing?

Here is an edition of the reply I offered to a question that someone asked on Quora. Bear in mind that it might be a good idea to follow the links for context. If we do sanity testing before release, do we have to do regression testing? What if I told you Yes? What if I told you No? Some questions shouldn’t be answered. That is: some questions shouldn’t be … Read more