I have renamed it from Fearless Automation to Think Like a Tester (for the moment, the URL will remain the same). There were three recent events that made me decide to shift my focus:
- I attended a large international computing conference where there was not a single workshop or presentation focused on software testing.
- At this conference, I met computer science students who asked me if there were any college classes to learn to be a tester.
- I interviewed a QA engineer who was able to create a great automated testing solution for a website, but could not think of simple manual tests for the site.
- There aren't enough people talking about testing software
- There aren't enough resources to learn about testing software
- The testing community has been focused for so long on how to test software that we haven't been thinking about what to test and why we are testing it
- Rather than thinking of ways to make software work, testers think of ways to make software break
- Rather than designing things to go right, testers think of all the ways that things can go wrong
- Rather than focusing deeply on one feature, testers focus on how all those features integrate
- Rather than solving a problem and moving on, testers come up with ways to continually verify that features are working
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