Tester Psychology
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I’m a fan of detective stories and recently I have been watching a lot of Sherlock Holmes. There is a recurring plot line that happens at various instances, where Sherlock would give amazing insight about a person just by looking at the person for a minute. On one such instance, Sherlock explains how he came
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A lot of times, what is logged as a bug by a tester is usually an opinion. A tester observes the behavior of the subject and feels something is not right. On further analysis, s/he develops on the idea and forms an opinion about the behavior or atleast has a set of questions about the
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Dear Rahul, Note: If you think that you don’t fit into the description of the “YOU” that follows, ignore this letter. It’s not meant for you! When you have chosen to ignore it based on this decision, please reconsider for once on my request. You are not what your school is. You are not what
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Note: Before you read any further, let me warn you that you might not be comfortable reading this, esp if you are from context driven school. Have a glass of water, if it helps. This post is not to undermine the contributions of the context driven community. I owe a lot to their wonderful work
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I have seen a lot of discussions over this topic in various blogs or otherwise. I could see people outrightly rejecting it, speaking in favor of it or making statements in favor of both approaches. I think it makes sense to write my thoughts as well on this topic. What I am going to write
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Recently while watching National Geographic channel, I was amazed to see a striking parallelism between one of the series broadcasted on the channel, and the IT industry. It made me rethink certain incidents which I had seen in my career, and about which either I had a very different opinion or I could not think
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“Can you develop the product in which you are finding bugs? “, “It’s OK that you are finding mistakes, but can you fix it yourself?” – There is list of such questions, which I have heard throughout my career, often derogatory, from professionals (at times friends) who happen to be developers. The very idea
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This article addresses one of the most important aspects of a tester’s profession – Bug Reporting. In the article on Bug Advocacy (Cem Kaner and James Bach), the authors say a very important thing. The best tester isn’t the one who finds the most bugs or who embarrasses the most programmers. The best tester is
Rahul Verma: My Petty Bits 