Sometimes testers make some assumptions, but hopefully they avoid them. This series of posts will show you some well-known pitfalls and assumptions that tester make. This second post describes is about responsibilities. Assumption: The developer has performed all the technical checks In my opinion it’s the task of the developers to perform all the technical [...]

A few weeks ago I had a conversation with a colleague of mine and fellow Twit @bartvrenegoor. We had a conversation about what to test with standard software product. I came to the statement: “With standard software products functional and usability testing don’t exist anymore. You buy them with the product.” Now it’s needed for [...]

My assignment at this moment is to define some test goals and goals from the test community for my client. This is an interesting job to do, because you have to go back to the start and define why we’re doing our work. During this task I had a nice discussion with a colleague and [...]