The second session I was at at TestRetreat was one I facilitated around the visual representation of testing information. I’ll do a post on that later this weekend when I have time to type up the 5 easel pad pages of notes we generated and get Heather’s mindmap she made. More on that to come… […]
Testing
Posts about the process of empirically evaluating an application to determine if it provides correct funtionality.
Experiential Learning (TestRetreat 2013)
I’m at TestRetreat today in Madison, WI. A bunch of smart people here (some of whom I’ve met before, some I’ve known through online interactions, and some I’m having the pleasure of meeting for this first time this weekend) and as one does (at least if one is me), I’ve been making mindmaps on the […]
Guest Post: .Net Headless browser options
Jim Evans is one of the committers for the Selenium project. He works a lot with the .Net bindings and the support for Internet Explorer. He sent out a post today to the selenium-developers mailing list about work he’s done investigating headless browser options. He then commented in the #selenium IRC channel that it perhaps […]
My Selenium Conference talk video now posted!
The video from my talk at this year’s Selenium Conference is now posted on YouTube. You can watch it here. I haven’t watched it yet, but I know we ran into some technical difficulties recording the screen during the talk, so as a reminder, the slides to go with the talk are available here should […]
Test Automation Architecture: Our Application Under Test
After looking around a little to figure out what would be a good web application to use as the public example of my planned series digging deep into a test automation architecture, I’ve hit on the perfect choice: Entaggle.com Entaggle is the brain child of Elisabeth Hendrickson. I had the chance to visit with Elisabeth […]
Observation, or How to Steal Like an Artist, Testing redux
I came across a citation the other day for the blog post “How to Steal Like an Artist (and 9 other things nobody told me)“, by Austin Kleon. Given my feeling that some artists get way too possessive of any idea they have and that we grow by sharing ideas and adapting them, I was […]
Part 2 of our TWiST podcast now posted
SoftwareTestPro.com has posted part 2 of the interview that Matt Heusser did with Heather and I for the TWiST podcast. This time, I talk more about the automation I’m working on and about what was then my upcoming Selenium Conference talk. Heather talks about the value of testing and misconceptions about testers. http://www.softwaretestpro.com/Item/5129/TWiST-43—Heather-and-Andy-Tinkham-Part-II/Interviews-Automation (again, registration […]
How the Study of Art informs my Testing
I study art in my spare time, including perusing art related blogs and attending classes. The thing that intrigues me is how much overlap I find between some of those topics and several aspects of what goes in to thoughtful, skilled testing to me: – Intentionality – Observation – Practice – Focus on the final […]
Heather & Andy interviewed for TWiST podcast
A few weeks back, Heather and I spent a wonderful hour talking to Matt Heusser, the host of the This Week in Software Testing podcast. Our conversation covered all sorts of topics, and the time flew by. Both Heather and I had interacted a little with Matt, but it was nice to get the chance […]
How development debt becomes a Hydra
When we talk about “technical debt” it seems to convey the idea that you are creating an obligation to fix things later that will behave nicely and predictably, like an open balance on your credit card. You know what you over-spent, it will grow over time due to a pre-specified interest rate, and possibly late […]