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The Little Tester #111

These are the made up stories of a team working in an Agile environment. Their daily struggles and successes are presented in a comic/parody/satirical way. Click on the image to see it in full size. The team members are: Little, the main character. The team’s tester. Coffee, the team’s Java developer. Mr. Fancy, the team’s… Read More

Digging in the mud

As a software tester, I often feel like being an archeologist. I am analyzing artefacts that are found in requirements, use-cases, user-stories, emails, phone calls, balcony talks, meetings, defects, etc. I am collecting all these wide spread piece…

It was a bear, for sure (overvalued bugs)

 Almost every year we go skiing in the mountains for about a week. We usually rent the same house  which is surrounded by a huge garden. One morning – it’s quite a while back now  – we encountered a series of big footprints in the gar…

The Little Tester #110

These are the made up stories of a team working in an Agile environment. Their daily struggles and successes are presented in a comic/parody/satirical way. Click on the image to see it in full size. The team members are: Little, the main character. The team’s tester. Coffee, the team’s Java developer. Mr. Fancy, the team’s… Read More

The Little Tester #109

These are the made up stories of a team working in an Agile environment. Their daily struggles and successes are presented in a comic/parody/satirical way. Click on the image to see it in full size. The team members are: Little, the main character. The team’s tester. Coffee, the team’s Java developer. Mr. Fancy, the team’s… Read More

333-How much time do you need for testing?

About one third of the total test effort should be spent on determining how to test [1]. I’ve usually counted another third to prepare reusable test data for regression tests and yet another third to finally execute the test. That’s what the 333 stand…

Infinite arrays

The omniscient corny horn pours out the following words of wisdom:All arrays Chuck Norris declares are of infinite size because Chuck Norris knows no bounds.

The Little Tester #108

These are the made up stories of a team working in an Agile environment. Their daily struggles and successes are presented in a comic/parody/satirical way. Click on the image to see it in full size. The team members are: Little, the main character. The team’s tester. Coffee, the team’s Java developer. Mr. Fancy, the team’s… Read More

The Little Tester #107

These are the made up stories of a team working in an Agile environment. Their daily struggles and successes are presented in a comic/parody/satirical way. Click on the image to see it in full size. The team members are: Little, the main character. The team’s tester. Coffee, the team’s Java developer. Mr. Fancy, the team’s… Read More

Very refreshing

The omniscient corny horn pours out the following words of wisdom:I love the smell of my F5 key. It’s very refreshing.