Hiccupps

I was interviewed on Testers' Island Discs a few months ago. During the conversation, Mark Winteringham asked me about the Association for Software Testing and I said this: The AST is a professional body for software testers. It's a non-profit — we're all volunteers — and its mission is to advance understanding of the science and practice of software testing according to context-driven principles ... which sounds like a real mouthful. The way I like to gloss it, and the way it speaks to me, is that we value both expertise and experience when it comes to testing and generally speaking we favour context-driven testing too. My sense is that, these days, most people would, even if they don't really know the terms, probably be doing some kind of context-driven testing. The proportion of people doing old-school stuff, test cases and so on, is shrinking as far as I can see. I love talking about AST (why not come and join us ?) and I very...

  I was invited onto the Testers' Island Discs podcast recently. Testers' Island Discs is ... a podcast focused around software testing and storytelling hosted by Mark Winteringham. The concept is straightforward: each episode, Mark interviews a different member of the global software testing community to talk about their career, interspersed with clips and discussions of the music that they love. Every guest gets to select five songs and one book to take with them to the island. I've written about the music I chose in Island Records . This post is for links to things that came up in the conversation. Puns Your Testing is a Joke from EuroSTAR 2015 The Rule of Three and Me CEWT How it started ( Blog ) Topics covered ( List of CEWTs ) ...

I was invited onto the Testers' Island Discs podcast recently. Testers' Island Discs is ... a podcast focused around software testing and storytelling hosted by Mark Winteringham. The concept is straightforward: each episode, Mark interviews a different member of the global software testing community to talk about their career, interspersed with clips and discussions of the music that they love. Every guest gets to select five songs and one book to take with them to the island. Music was my life for a long, long time. I was in bands, I did my own solo music, I wrote a fanzine and occasionally for "proper" publications too, I attended gigs several nights a week, and I DJed on student and community radio stations. I built up a big record collection stacked around the house and in the loft but when my daughters got old enough to need their own bedrooms I had to sell it to make space. Although I never counted, I estimated that there were ar...