By James A. WhittakerYes I know, I’ve been quiet. Seriously heads down shipping products and developing what I think are some pretty cool new testing ideas and tools. Perhaps GTAC will be the chance for you to judge that for yourselves. Perhaps it will…
By James A. WhittakerFlashback. It’s 1990. Chances are you do not own a cell phone. And if you do it weighs more than a full sized laptop does now. You certainly have no iPod. The music in your car comes from the one or two local radio stations that pl…
By James A. WhittakerW. Edwards Deming helped to revolutionize the process of manufacturing automobiles in the 1970s and a decade later the software industry ran with the manufacturing analogy and the result was nearly every waterfall, spiral or agile …
By James A. WhittakerGoogle is hiring. We have openings for security testers, test tool developers, automation experts and manual testers. That’s right, I said manual testers.As a result of all this interviewing I’ve been reading a lot of interview fee…
By James A. WhittakerIf anyone is interested, I am giving a webinar through uTest. It’s open to the uTest community and the public. You can register at https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/793439307. I’ll be giving a talk about how we do testing at Go…
By James A. WhittakerMore thoughts:Understand your orgs release process and prioritiesLate cycle pre-release testing is the most nerve racking part of the entire development cycle. Test managers have to strike a balance between doing the right testing …
By James A. WhittakerI got this question in email this morning from a reader:”I am a test supervisor at — and was promoted to a QA management position yesterday. I’m excited and terrified, so I have been thinking about how to organize the thought in…
By James A. WhittakerI am pleased to be speaking tonight at the local (and in my experience one of the finest) QA special interest group, SASQAG. My talk is based on my STAR keynote, but having just released Chrome OS today I am going to be detailing m…
By Rajat DewanI appreciate James’ offer to talk about how I have used the FedEx tour in Mobile Ads. Good timing too as I just found two more priority 0 bugs with the automation that the FedEx tour inspired! It was fun presenting this at STAR and I am p…
By James A. WhittakerI am happy to report that attendance is way up at STAR. My back of the envelope calculations put it at several hundred more than STAR East a mere five months ago. A sure sign of economic recovery; I am surprised the stat hasn’t mad…
By James A. WhittakerWell my book survived a recession haunted publishing house and my own change of employer and is now available in print. The subtitle even changed as the techniques, which guided manual testing at Microsoft, were reapplied by Google…
By James WhittakerMathematically entropy is a measure of uncertainty. If there are, say, five events then maximum entropy occurs when those five events are equally likely and minimum entropy when one of those events is certain and the other four imposs…
By James WhittakerSorry I haven’t followed up on this, let the excuse parade begin: A) My new book just came out and I have spent a lot of time corresponding with readers. B) I have taken on leadership of some new projects including the testing of Chro…
By James A. WhittakerYes, I only posted 6 plagues. Congratulations for catching this purposeful omission! You wouldn’t trust a developer who argues “this doesn’t need to be tested” or “that function works like so” and you shouldn’t trust me when I say …
By James A. WhittakerAnd now for the last plague in this series. I hope you enjoyed them (the posts …not the plagues!)Imagine playing a video game blindfolded or even with the heads up display turned off. You cannot monitor your character’s health, y…