What can testing learn from social science? Why is this important to testers? My conclusion is that testing and the social sciences are very much interconnected and there are many lessons that we ...
Social science: three presentations Social science is about society, human nature and human interaction. It is an umbrella term to refer to sciences like anthropology, economics, education, linguis...
People are predictably irrational You think you are rational, but you are not. People fail to realize the irrationality of their actions and believe they are acting perfectly rational, possibly due...
Testers need to do a lot of thinking. To me testing is an investigation, gathering and providing information about things that are important. I like the definition by Jerry Weinberg: “testing is ga...
Last February and March I have had the privilege to talk at Belgium Testing Days in Brussel and TestBash in Brighton about what testing can learn from social science. In a series of blog posts I am...
A tweet by Shmuel Gershon pointed me to an article on the scrum alliance website called “Agile Methodology Is Not All About Exploratory Testing” by Dele Oluwole. Unfortunately the article is no lon...
At EuroStar 2012 in Amsterdam, Henrik Emilsson did a talk about the Software Quality Characteristics poster made by The Test Eye. After his talk he asked if someone was interested in translating th...
Last week Pete Walen asked me the following question via twitter: The Question (read it carefully!): What is it that makes Agile Testing different from “other” testing? Agile vs agile? What is ag...
This blog post was originally written as an column for www.testnewsonline.com (English) and www.testnieuws.nl (Dutch). Both websites do not exist anymore. Unfortunately last year AYE (Amplifying Y...
In the last edition of Testkrant (in Dutch) I published an article on context-driven testing called “I am a context-driven tester! Huh? Really? So?“. In this article I (try to) explain what context...