Neil Syrett | Software Tester
Over the past year or so, I’ve been actively using my deck of TestSphere cards, mainly as a way of introducing people to the mindset of testing. Recently, however my good colleague Stu Crocker introduced me to
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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