By James WhittakeruTest informs me that the planned webinar tomorrow (see my post below) is a record setter for pre-registration. I hope everyone shows up. Last time I set a uTest record was the number of people who read my interview on their blog, onl…
By James WhittakerIf you’ve heard me speak anytime over the past year you have heard me talk about Chrome OS and how we are testing it. Well, we’re not done testing it but we are announcing a pilot where you, yes you, can get one of the initial sets of…
By James WhittakerI am giving a webinar for uTest that may be of interest to some of you. Date: Friday Dec 10 at 8am PST. I tend to be pretty grouchy about that time of the morning and I have some pretty exhausting plans for the evening before so it mi…
By James WhittakerWhen to stop testing? It’s the age old testing question that many researchers have tried to quantify. In fact, the best answer requires no science whatsoever: never. Since testing is infinite, we can never really stop. A more practi…
By James WhittakerThe sixth ingredient is variation. Tests often get stale (i.e., they stop finding bugs) as they are run over and over on build after build as a product is being constructed. On the one hand, it is important to continue running tests t…
By James WhittakerI told the crowd at GTAC during my talk: “I wasn’t sure what to expect from India. I was not disappointed.” Be careful how you quote me on this statement as getting it even a little wrong can make it seem like an insult. It is no such…
By James WhittakerWow, India is a lot different than I expected. Visited Golconda fort today and was totally blown away. Plumbing and “telephones” all the way back then. No wonder IIT is such a good university. All this history on this trip, first Engl…
By James WhittakerOne of the problems with testing is that testers don’t possess a common vocabulary for the techniques they apply to actually perform testing. Some testers talk about partitioning the input domain and others gravitate toward boundary…
By James WhittakerFirst and foremost, apologies to all of those trying to get to our NY event who weren’t able to do so. It was an absolutely packed house, frankly the popularity of it overwhelmed us! Clearly the mixture of a Google tour, Google goodie…
By James WhittakerEver look at a testing problem and wonder how to solve it? If so you know what it feels like to lack domain expertise. Sometimes this is user-oriented knowledge. Testing a flight simulator requires knowledge of how to fly a plane. Tes…
Google is holding a testing event in our NY office Wednesday, September 15 at 5:30pm. This includes a tour of our local offices and a live talk on how Google does testing by our own James Whittaker. Rumor has it he’s using an early version of his GTAC …
By James WhittakerPossessing a bill of materials means that we understand the overall size of the testing problem. Unfortunately, the size of most testing problems far outstrips any reasonable level of effort to solve them. And not all of the testing s…
By James WhittakerWhen are you finished testing? It’s the age old quality question and one that has never been adequately answered (other than the unhelpful answer of never). I argue it never will be answered until we have a definition of the size of…
By James WhittakerEach year, about this time, we say goodbye to our summer interns and bid them success in the upcoming school year. Every year they come knowing very little about testing and leave, hopefully, knowing much more. This is not yet-another…
By James A. WhittakerI’ve had more than a few emails about “antenna-gate” asking me to comment and suggesting clever, stabbing rebukes to a fallen competitor. I might aim a few of those at my own team in the future, some were genuinely funny, but none …