by Thomas Murphy | January 22, 2010 | 3 Comments
Finding defects is only 1/2 the job for a tester and it isn’t the most important. The most important job is getting bugs fixed. The Tester isn’t directly responsible for the fix but an effective tester will 1) find test cases that make the defect so readily apparent the developer can’t say it is not [...]
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by Thomas Murphy | January 11, 2010 | 1 Comment
Currently I see methodology discussions often start with “we are using the agile method.” This generally rubs me a bit the wrong way because I don’t think of Agile as a method or process but as a philosophy and a set of practices. It is also not 1 thing but a category. Or if we [...]
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by Thomas Murphy | January 7, 2010 | 2 Comments
Seven years the development tools market looked to be on path to consolidation around a few vendors and a shift from lots of task tools to integrated suites. Application Life-cycle Management would bring together teams and deliver new levels of governance and productivity. Now as we begin the new decade I wonder if this a [...]
