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I disagree with less with your assumptions than with your conclusion. It is a tester's job to report the problem in its best light (that is, its most common occurrence, its greatest importance to the customer or to the business, or its worst conseq…
July 21
Assuming that "you" in this case means "the tester", and that you have presented your report in a way that clearly represents the risk of the problem to the best of your ability, 1) Who says it's a priority 1 bug? 2) Who says it needs to be fixed f…
May 21
Risk: something might happen that causes harm to some person or persons, based on a vulnerability in the system that is triggered by some threat. What do you see right or wrong, helpful or not so helpful, in that definition? Are you a tester? If s…
February 13
I've noticed that whenever I've asked someone the question that I asked above, I've always g0t an assertion that the tool was useful, but I've never, ever got an answer to the question. I should start forecasting that. ---Michael B.
February 13
I wrote a tool that does just that and have been using it for years now and we come within a day of our estimates. Suppose I have an estimate such that I'll stop testing on Wednesday at 4:00pm. On Wednesday at 4:00pm, I decide to stop testing. Mind…
January 30
In case how we can improve our quality. In order to improve quality, you don't need standards; you need understanding. What is quality to you? What is quality to your stakeholders? What's the difference between what those people want and what they…
January 15
Sam, you're presenting a version of the unicorn question here. http://www.satisfice.com/blog/archives/67 We'd like to be helpful, but your questions cannot be answered helpfully without help from you: what's the actual problem that you're trying t…
January 8
The difference between the three is what some person says is the difference between the three. I can guarantee that these terms will mean different things to different people. For you, the only "correct" answer is the answer that the "rough online t…
January 8

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I'm a tester, testing consultant, and trainer based in Toronto, Canada. I'm co-author (with James Bach) of Rapid Software Testing, a course and a methodology on how to do excellent testing more quickly and less expensively, yet credibly and accountably.
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At 11:40am on July 26, 2010, Priyanka said…
Hi Michael, Iam into manual testing since 4 yrs. interested in being a true disciple of urs in testing.Kindly accept my request
At 2:13am on August 5, 2009, EDISTA said…
Good to see you back after a long time Michael.
At 2:33am on March 31, 2009, EDISTA said…
The chat functionality is still not popular at TR. We are exploring various chat engines to start off featured chat events soon. I guess once we have a focussed sessions, we probably will see interesting conversations apart from the general Hello/Hi messages.

Regards,
Mohan
At 8:31am on February 7, 2009, Jayshree Rathod said…
Hi Michael

I just wanted to Thank You for sharing your views here, bcoz there are many things which i have heard from you through this site & I am trying to learn & implement them. I visited your site too and have taken a hard copy of some documents, so that I can read them whenever i get time

Thanks again

Jayshree Rathod
At 12:06pm on November 16, 2008, Ajay Balamurugadas said…
my investigation.txtHi Micheal,

Why do some people expect their questions to be answered in forums?
Here, I'm referring to questions whose answers can be known with some investigation.

So, a better question after applying the 'rephrase' heuristic may be : 'Why do some people fail/fear/not come out of comfort zone before asking questions?

I have attached my investigation results on this question to you.
Regards,
Ajay
At 3:20pm on August 19, 2008, Divya S.Pillai said…
Hi,
i got this question from istqb question booklet.i wish to kw the correct opinion among that four options other than adding more options in that.
At 2:00pm on May 16, 2008, Soumo..... said…
Hi Michael, do you mind me taking the questions that you have asked in http://www.stickyminds.com/testandevaluation.asp about "What obstacles do you encounter that diminish your engagement with your process? What do you do to get around them?" and start a fresh discussion here? That discussion is having only 1 reply...so I thought if I refer ur article and start a new discussion here.....it will be of much help....
At 3:12pm on February 23, 2008, Jayapradeep Jiothis said…
Hi Michael,

Hope u still remember me. We met a the QAI conf in delhi and the interesting discussion on the way to the PureTesting office. And ah did u figure a way out to fit into that dress?
:)
At 9:42pm on February 5, 2008, EDISTA said…
Welcome to Test Republic Michael.
 
 
 

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