tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91801991552945338012011-12-18T10:56:04.853+01:00Hey - welcome. This blog will explore anything, but will probably focus mostly on software testing, managing software testing and development. Feel free to comment.Carsten Feilberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18348610778313662800noreply@blogger.comBlogger181100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9180199155294533801.post-15266291966164646612011-01-02T23:25:00.001+01:002011-01-06T09:08:21.772+01:00

.. is not about the testing itself, but: "What are you going to do about the information that testing will provide you with ?"This is the kind of question that really shoves lots of stakeholders out of their comfort zone. I've seen more than one with flickering eyebrows, when I've asked this question. I think, with such reactions, that this is truly an important question to ask: If there's no

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I forgot when I started to draw my first mind maps. Like I'm sure many others do, I'm thinking slightly chaotic, in the sense, that I get inspiration and ideas after I finished something. Mind maps are, as far as I know, created for that kind of thinking. So - if you're not one of those rare and rather strange persons who thinks everything sequentially and forward, you'd benefit from it too.

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So I went to CAST 2010 in Michigan. It was a blast. Although, not so many people this year. You never heard of CAST ? Why - it is a wonderful conference, with a huge emphasis on CONFERring. So it's sold, and so it is also. I've been going three years in a row now and I keep learning from this conference. One of the special things is that all the sessions are about half presentation, and half

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One of the main problems around testing is that the terms and understanding of terms differs a lot from person to person. Although standard lists of term definition has been around for a decade or so, along with certification schemes, with a huge weight on learning these definitions - terms are in reality still quite open and changes meaning from project to project. I guess it's only fair to

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Have you ever felt like you're crumbled up in a deadlocked situation ? Workwise or in private, this is what happens to us all every once in a while. We let the situation work us instead of taking charge and work the situation. Easy enough said ? Yes, I guess it is. That's why we need some tools to handle it. One heuristic is the title of this blog post. 'A new hope' emerges in the star wars

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Once in a while it's difficult to hit the kill-button on the remote while show after show rolls over the screen. Occassionally something interesting comes along. This time it was an analysis and review of two famous marine assaults, their planning, strategy and outcome. What struck me in particular was the strategy, which resembles very much what we do in software testing. The strategy for the

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The art of misunderstanding each otherThis is a story from outside software testing, but it is extremely relevant. If we do anything as testers, analysts, developers and end users - it's communicating. Look here how easy it can go awry:Last time I went to a school class meeting, one of the teachers decided to tell a little story to us. This was a meeting with all parents together, and no kids.

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I 'ate' a lot of Jerry-books lately. I decided to write something about them.They are all recommendable and in the following I will tell you why. Overall I enjoyed reading them very much.Becoming a Technical Leader, by Gerald WeinbergThis is a great book because it tells the reader a lot about what leadership is, how to work towards it and what to be observant about on that road. It's clearly

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In this blog post I will explore the similarities between cooking and testing software.Speaking as one, who considers my cooking a success, when people do not rise from the table to spit out the food in the garbage-bin during dinner, I some time ago decided to do something about it.I know a little about cooking now, thanks to two thing: inspiration (hugely by a popular, danish television show

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This is a couple of notes I made as an exercise while trying to determine whether I could fix my toaster. It had all of a sudden and quite unexpected stopped working, so I decided to take an hour or two to see if I could do something about it. These are the notes that documents the work. It's published to add to the amount of tester stories on the internet, as example of exploratory testing

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Twice I've recently bought a new, electronical device and twice the manual insisted on starting it by pressing a button, which does not appear to exist.On one of the devices there's supposedly an 'on'-button, according to the manual. However, on the physical device there's a '1'-button. On the other there's an extra button, which you have to operate, but it's not mentioned in the manual. And the

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I've once again stumpled across a Sinclair ZX Spectrum Emulator. I have no clue as to how I got on to that, but now it's here. And I'm amazed by all I still know and remember of this magnificent machine and it's broad range of software, dating back around 27 years ago.On www.worldofspectrum.org you can find a fine collection of both software, documentation and emulators and much more. Most of

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I gave in and am now also on Twitter.I've been reluctant to do this for some time, but after a heavy bombardment of references to twitter from people I know, I gave in yesterday. My twitter name is carsten_f.That was actually quite hard to figure out. I thought of using my full name, but then again, the energy I had vested in this showed to be absent. And all the other good ones, including '

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From time to time I go with my excess garbage of all kinds to the local 'dump'. This place, which is slightly more sophisticated than it sounds, is a massive pool of learning as well.It's proper name is 'Recirculation Central', and it consists of a number of containers, each designated to a special type of trash. Most prominent is the 'small burnable items'. It's amazing what is burnable. I still

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Yes, you read it right. Some days ago the weather was right - sunny and warm-ish - the demand for getting the hedge down to a reasonable height became undeniable. (I have lived happily in denial since last year).Now - a hedge is a two-party thing. Half of it is mine, the other half belongs to my neighbour.Every year I cut my half, he cut his half, and the top, and all are happy.Except - last year

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I went flying on a modern Airbus 330 lately (well, it was towards PSL, so it was quite recently).This airplane has a wonderful feature: every seat, even in the economy class where I sat, have small screens with a full blown entertainment system. During flight each passenger can watch movies, listen to music and even play games of his or her own choice.Throughout the testing community various

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I have just returned - that is, I came back yesterday - from the Problem Solving Leadership workshop in Albuquerque. My body is still on USA time, and exhausted from travelling almost 20 hours, all included. But my mind is energized, and having these two feelings simultanously is pretty weird.A lot of things are going around in my mind now. Usually I keep a lot of stuff in it, but right now it's

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I wonder what the rules of this game are. It seems more and more obvious to me, that the requirement ‘phase’ of a project is way underestimated. Recently in James Bach’s blog (Quality is Dead) I saw something that explained a part of it: we don’t really know what the requirements of most (if not all) the systems and gadgets we’re using were. But once upon a time, there was a project around,

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