If You Don’t Understand Something, Learn It
TL;DR For software tester, every day is a learning opportunity. We are in the business of making software, an illusional thing that needs the computer to manifest itself. And making…
What Is Transpective Dialog?
TL;DR I am recapping my software testing foundations by writing posts about software testing foundation topics. Doing that I came across James Bach’s post about transpective dialogs that he uses…
As Software Tester You Need To Do Research
TL;DR As a software tester, you will need to do your own research. It is sporadic that you will get information about how the product works or how it should…
Be A Specialist
TL;DR Being a specialist is not a good option on your path to becoming a passionate software tester. If you still need to go into this direction, you need to…
Use Consistency Oracles For Test Reporting
TL;DR In the previous post, we presented consistency heuristics and gave an example of how they could be used as testing ideas on the Mac Disk Utility tool. This is…
Consistency Testing Oracles
TL;DR This post explains and gives examples for consistency testing oracles. This post raises four problems with this approach. The post is aligned with the Black Box Software Testing Foundations…
Expand Your General Software Testing Skills
TL;DR Software development is not a manufacturing process where each step of the process is done by dedicated specialist developers. Because of that, software testers must generalize their knowledge and…
