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Disproportionate amount of introverts in software testing
My wife and I were talking the other day about my learning styles research. She observed that it seemed to her that most testers tend to be more introverted than extroverted. While I don’t have the facts to prove or … Continue reading
Posted in Cognitive Science, Testing Tagged extroverts, Heather Tinkham, introverts, learning styles, testing 10 Comments
Compendium of Idea Generation Techniques
In my Exploring Exploratory Testing talk, I mentioned a web site run by Martin Leith that contained a taxonomy of Idea generation Techniques. Renee Hopkins (of Corante’s IdeaFlow blog) just reported that Leith has taken the site down as he … Continue reading
Posted in Cognitive Science, Testing Tagged creativity, idea generation, Martin Leith, Renee Hopkins Comments Off
Context-free Questions
Last week, I gave a presentation on exploratory testing at the Twin Cities Quality Assurance Association. It was the same paper that I gave at STAR East in May, with some stuff that I learned in giving the presentation the … Continue reading
Comments on learning styles
I’ve gotten a couple of email feedbacks on my learning styles posts, and I thought I’d post a quick note here, both to serve as a reminder to myself (since I’m focusing on finishing the initial draft of my initial … Continue reading
Posted in Cognitive Science, Culture Tagged Alan Richardson, Brian Marick, culture, Dominic O'Brien, learning difficulties, learning styles, parenting Comments Off