Carnival of Testers #27

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October, Halloween, pranks, scary stuff, ritual and various forms of deity-worship is nothing new to software testing.

But, hopefully, in the selection below there are no ghouls, just good writing! Judge for yourselves...

Natural?

• Phi Kirkham made a series of interviews with contributing authors of a new software testing-related book. Here, was a good example with Catherine Powell.

• Assumptions, pre-conceptions and hidden interpretations are rife in any social interaction. They're amplified by software. Adam Knight gave an example, here, of how simple it is to overlook pre-conceptions.

• The first GATE workshop took place at the beginning of October and got a good write-up from Markus Gärtner, here. Eusebiu Blindu's thoughts on it, here.

• If you're in the vicinity Phil Kirkham was announcing an STC meetup in Chicago, here.

• Jeff Nyman had some perspectives on quality assurance and what's obvious, here.

• A comprehensive report from PNSQC by Nathalie de Vries, here.

• Duncan Nisbet, here, gave a run-down of his last 12 months - actual against expectations. Interesting reflections.

• A good post about the beta book program, here, from Michael Larsen.

• Alan Richardson lists his inspiration for his model of software testing, here.

• Retrospectives, de-briefs and reflections are important in any team or testing activity. Lisa Crispin describes how fortune cookies were used as a trigger in a team retrospective, here.

Unnatural?

• Regression testing - done well, done badly, done at all, done with any thought? Anne-Marie Charrett explored some issues with aspects of regression testing, here.

• "All that testing is getting in the way of quality"? A halloween prank? Eric Jacobson wrote his reflections on the STARWest talk, here. Ben Kelly made a good walk-through of the points in Eric's post, here. Good comments in both!

Supernatural?

• Halloween. Is quality dead or undead? Trish Khoo had some thoughts, here.

• Men in black or bogey men? Mr TestSheep has some thoughts on them, here. (Well done, NZ in RWC 2011!)

• And finally, to wrap-up October and all things ghoulish, Claire Moss wrote about the undead attributes of quality, here.

Until the next time....