Neil Syrett | Software Tester
In recent weeks I have been reading a little on the subjects of cognitive biases and human fallibility. Earlier this week I stumbled upon the work of clinical psychologist Paul E Meehl. In his 1954 work on
Continue reading
Last week I was invited by @stefantomas, a friend and former colleague, to attend his new London software testing meetup catchily named Testing at the Tavern Now I’ll be honest I was a little apprehensive. I’ve been to
Continue reading
Before I get hammered by the checking vs testing advocates, please let me caveat this post by saying that this entire post is about automated checking, but for readability purposes I may from time to time use
Continue reading
In a previous post – Why don’t testers ask questions any more? – I discussed some of the challenges that prevent testers from asking the right questions and suggested some solutions. In addition to the suggestions I made in
Continue reading
Asking questions is a corner stone of good software testing and asking educated, probing questions throughout the software development lifecycle is an unrivalled tool for both preventing bugs and for learning about the product, technology and business
Continue reading
In my last post I spoke about the time I arranged for James Bach to visit my work place and talk to our Software Testing Community. Here is the full video of the event: https://t.co/u7JzjD1ak1 Here are my
Continue reading