Folklore - Chris Kenst

Folklore

A collection of 5 posts

Humans and Machines: Getting The Model Wrong

It seems like one of the more prominent and perpetual debates within the software testing community is the delineation between what the computer and human can and should do. Stated another way, this question becomes “what parts of testing fall to the human to design, run and evaluate and what

Do Software Testers Need a College Education

Do Software Testers Need a College Education

I came across an old blog post on the uTest blog Do Software Testers Need a College Education. The author says: Depending on who you ask this question to, you’re likely to receive various degrees (pardon the pun) of yes and no. Or you may find many others who

Anyone Can Test, right?

In this video from StarEast, Rob Sabourin talks about his experience with concept of “anyone can test”. This actually gives me an idea for a challenge: Before watching, make a list or jot down some notes that try to describe the potential benefits and problems with assigning any particular person

Throw someone else in to help QA it faster!

Throw someone else in to help QA it faster! A former boss (or two) of mine I’ve heard this statement many times in my career but it happened again just recently and it got me thinking. Aside from the poor choice of words, about “QAing” something (is that really

Performance Reviews (bad)

It’s that time of year at my company when we meet with our respective bosses to discuss how well we did. Review time is probably the least fun time of the year, not because I am fearful of how I might do but, because it’s time to give