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Comment on Warning!! Your Product May Be Less Attractive Than You Think It Is! by Rosie Sherry

Rosie Sherry — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 20:22:10 +0000

Interesting.

I certainly know people who think they are awesome at their job and deserve that pay rise or job promotion.

I’m guessing part of it may be the ‘blind’ aspect. It’s so easy to focus in on something and fail to see everything else going on around. Fail to take feedback onboard. Fail to stay one step ahead of the game. Fail to see what users actually want….

And metrics are dangerous, they can paint a false picture, especially if some people have selfish motives. Give one set of survey results to two competing companies and see how they interpret or play with the data to make them look better

Comment on All our testing should be Exploratory by Robert Abgail Johnson

Robert Abgail Johnson — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 20:42:04 +0000

I believe automated testing is the best solution in all cases!

Comment on Mashup Your Tests. by Prashant

Prashant — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 11:35:45 +0000

I agree with the basic precept of going out of your comfort zone and trying out things in order to learn.I believe most people end up optimising their path to achieving the goal and miss the forks and turns that might give them a sense of adventure.

Mashup is a pretty cool idea.

Comment on All our testing should be Exploratory by Chris Morris

Chris Morris — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 07:29:24 +0000

I have had a lot of value from random testing. It is true that intelligent exploratory testing can find errors that random testing does not – but the converse is also true.

This is easy to do with a web app – I have a spider, that gets a page, and chooses at random a link to follow or a form to fill in, then starts again with the resulting page. In order to get deep into the application, it needs some hints to fill in appropriate form values (or randomly use an inappropriate value). It is a really good way to find code injection defects, and finds other defects too.

The academic literature frowns on random testing – but testing became a research topic back in the days when programmer time was cheaper than CPU time.