Archive for June, 2008

Thou shalt perform Excellent Testing

This is number two in my list of commandments for testers. It probably goes without saying that actually performing testing will be your main job function. Talking about testing, thinking about testing, planning your test process – these are all very important and very useful things to do, but the primary reason for your continuing […]

Thou shalt not take the name of the Tester in vain

This is number one in my list of commandments for testers. Most individuals in the field of software testing have their fingers in many pies – some have come from development, some want to move to management, and some just want to break software until the day they dump core. However, during a project you […]

The Commandments of Testing

Thou shalt not take the name of the Tester in vain Thou shalt perform Excellent Testing Thou shalt plan Efficiently Observe the Milestone and keep it holy Honour thy Customer and thy Company Thou shalt not be Nice Thou shalt learn from History but thou shalt not Repeat it Thou shalt document Sufficiently These concepts […]