Context-free Questions

Written by Andy Tinkham. Date of post: July 16, 2003April 25, 2011. 2 Comments Posted in Cognitive Science, Testing Tagged Cem Kaner, context-free questions, Don Gause, exploratory testing, James Bach, Jerry Weinberg, Michael Bolton, Michael Michalko, Pete Ter Maat, Phoenix Checklist, presentation, testing2 Comments

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 first time. The paper and presentation are both available at the lab website. One of […]

A step back

Written by Andy Tinkham. Date of post: July 11, 2003April 25, 2011. Posted in Testing Tagged Cem Kaner, Center for Software Testing Education and Research, domain testing, exploration styles, exploratory testing, Felder-Silverman model, Florida Tech, improvisation, James Bach, Kolb's Learning Cycle, learning styles, Myers-Briggs, scenario testing, testing, testing education

In looking back, I realized that I dove into several topics here without any real explanation of why I was doing it. For those of you reading who have not been present at FIT since the day I arrived, here’s a catch-up so that you know where I’m coming from. This is taken from an […]

And so it (temporarily) ends

Written by Andy Tinkham. Date of post: June 18, 2003April 25, 2011. 4 Comments Posted in Conference Reports Tagged Agile Fusion, James Bach, Lenore Bach4 Comments

This is the last post I’ll be making from Front Royal. Those who may have gotten used to multiple posts a day will find themselves sadly disappointed in the upcoming months. There’ll be no posts for the next few days (I’ll be without net access as I drive back home then spend the weekend with […]

Wrap-up

Written by Andy Tinkham. Date of post: June 18, 2003April 25, 2011. 1 Comment Posted in Automated Testing, Conference Reports, Development, Testing Tagged acceptance testing, Agile Fusion, agile testing, Bret Pettichord, Brian Marick, Cem Kaner, change detection, exploratory testing, James Bach, John Elrick, objectives, risk, testing role, XP1 Comment

Cem prepared this list to help us discuss the outcome of this workshop. We spent this morning discussing and refining it (with John moderating, which I mention so that he can get his Toastmaster’s credit 🙂 ). All of these things are in the context of testing on an agile project, where people typically shift […]

Guest post from James Bach

Written by Andy Tinkham. Date of post: June 18, 2003April 25, 2011. Posted in Conference Reports, Development, Testing Tagged Agile Fusion, agile testing, Brian Marick, conflict, experience, exploratory testing, guest post, James Bach

One of the things that I (Andy) don’t feel like I conveyed well in this blog is some of the conflict that came out in our discussions. I think my failure in this regard stemmed from two pieces — the conflict aversion I described a few posts back, and the fact that this was a […]

Observations

Written by Andy Tinkham. Date of post: June 17, 2003February 7, 2013. 4 Comments Posted in Automated Testing, Conference Reports, Development, Testing Tagged acceptance testing, Agile Fusion, Cem Kaner, change detection, efficiency, exploratory testing, FIT, George Polya, James Bach, John Elrick, lessons learned, pair programming, pair testing, Rob Mee, testing in agile, trust, unit testing4 Comments

Tonight we spent the after dinner session taking a first crack at describing what we’ve learned from the session so far. I imagine we’ll be revisiting the topic again in the next couple of days, but here’s the slightly annotated list of points we came up with tonight… Managing XP with cards is like chartered […]

Metrics in XP

Written by Andy Tinkham. Date of post: June 17, 2003April 24, 2011. Posted in Conference Reports, Development, Testing Tagged Agile Fusion, backlog, Cem Kaner, high volume test automation, injection rate, James Bach, Jeremy Stell-Smith, metrics, Mike Feathers, Mike Hewner, XP, zero bugs

This post is in more of a notes style than my previous ones. I was originally planning on making this more prose-like, but I’m not going to after all. I kind of like the way it reads now. Maybe it’ll lead to more questions, but I’m going to call it a blogging experiment. 🙂 Cem […]

On exploratory testing

Written by Andy Tinkham. Date of post: June 15, 2003February 7, 2013. 1 Comment Posted in Conference Reports Tagged Agile Fusion, Al Jorgenson, attacks, Cem Kaner, exploratory testing, Giri Vijayaraghavan, James Bach, James Whittaker, learning testing1 Comment

Cem and James talked about exploratory testing — Cem talked about exploratory testing in terms of categorizing knowledge — by risk, test technique, or approach. Though I wasn’t there, from other comments (and talks with James), I would guess he talked about the use of heuristics and skeptical questioning of the application. He gave the […]

Day 3 wrap-up

Written by Andy Tinkham. Date of post: June 15, 2003May 6, 2011. Posted in Conference Reports Tagged Agile Fusion, Brian Marick, Chad Fowler, Dave Thomas, James Bach, Mike Feathers, process, retrospective, veterinary project, XP

You may have noticed that I’m blogging less and less on each day. Some of this is because the planning and procedural stuff is becoming less emphasized as we work more on getting a story done. While I could say “we wrote code” it doesn’t seem the same to me in terms of what I […]

Group discussion

Written by Andy Tinkham. Date of post: June 13, 2003April 24, 2011. Posted in Conference Reports Tagged Agile Fusion, BC Holmes, blogging project, Cem Kaner, James Bach, Mike Feathers, Mike Hewner, planning game, testing role, XP

Did some stories, did some code mining, did a feature walkthrough (so they know where they’re going). Talked about what scenario testing is and what the role of testing is on projects. They’ve already found a big stack of bugs in the existing code. Synopsis of their discussion of scenario testing: Got through the demo […]

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