When Organizations Put Budgets Over Quality

When Organizations Put Budgets Over Quality

For 30 years, I have worked in or was involved in Quality Assurance and Testing (they are not the same thing), and it is surprising to see how easily it can be set aside when it comes to budgets. One of the oversized items that tend to get set aside to collect dust in...
When Is A Coach Not A Coach

When Is A Coach Not A Coach

Recently when recording the QA Corner component of SPaMCAST, we discussed the role of a coach. We didn’t get into specifics on whether it is an agile coach, life coach, or executive coach; we focused on the overall attributes of a coach. See, there are...
It’s All Relative

It’s All Relative

Recently I was a part of a discussion on what has more value: Actual time or relative time. I recognized that relative time is important throughout the conversation, but I fell back to “actual” having the most value. I reason that the term “relative” is not absolute....
Static and dynamic testing

Static and dynamic testing

Static and dynamic testing Recently on my last appearance on SPaMCAST, we talked about static and dynamic testing. As always, it was a great conversation with Tom on the matter. Let’s review the definitions. Static testing – reviews, looking over, visual...