OLDER POSTS
Use your mastery of the mouse by clickety-clicking on the thumbnail on the left to view a larger image! You might just have a career in software testing! Well, the joke seemed funny at the time. At least it got a few laughs. Hey, I'd certainly buy a copy if the book has a chapter on "How To Convince Management That Testing Is NOT Just Clicking and Hoping That Stuff Breaks". I'm referring to those occasions in every software tester's career when he or she must deal with management and developers who assume that testing does not require a great deal of skill, thinking, planning AND creativity. Those crazy times when the powers-that-be throw in all sorts of people (customers, secretaries, managers, staff pulled from other projects, etc.) at the last hour to start clicking on shit. Often, mostly cosmetic GUI issues are found in these sessions. There is great value in this, but I have a beef with the mentality behind the practice. :-x
Testing is not easy. You cannot just throw numbers of people in a project so late in the game and hope that within budget, timely and high-quality software will be the end result. While I'm griping, let me just add that people do not "break" software unless they're smashing computers and CDs around. The software came broken already.
Crafty, skilled testers expose those broken bits. Monkeys sometimes find bananas randomly but the smarter, skilled, and more experienced monkeys are better equipped to know where and how to look for tastier, bigger and more plantains. Forgive me for borrowing the overused monkey metaphor...
What, were you expecting a tutorial how-to or great, original QA insight? I have none, just scars. Just a little lame QA humour for now, but maybe I will write something useful for someone, one day, hehe. That day is not today.
Au revoir,
Massa P aka "fruity"
@Pedro: Gah, that was better than my material. Pie? Did somebody say pie? I like pie. I don't know what you're talking about either. ;-)
@Em: 7:11 PM? I don't know what you're talking about. Drivel? I'm flattered.
Hallo Mr. / Mrs. / Dr. Fruity,
Sorry, my English no too good. I interest very much this book you write, want buy and wonders where is it to find such these monkeys you speak of? We test Java based livestock leasing and credit program, but regular software testers die from malnutrients and syphilis. If you have monkey, we very happy to buy from you. My company seek expertise in this speciality Q & A. Recommend you, this Google, so please help. We pay these bananas you like.
Also title is ambiguous, "Software Testing for Dummies" may mean software that is designed to validate someone as a dummy. If so, we interest, very much, this software to expose persons of mental retardation. Is useful for HR department to find managerial and project schedulers.
Please e-mail quote for Monkeys and/or Software to expose mental retardation. Thank you.
Signed,
Mr. E.
P.S. What is this Pi thing?
I'm still waiting to access the real password-protected inaugural post. So, WHY DO ALL YOUR POSTS have the SAME POST TIMES? 7:11 pm?! Huh? Is this another Massa P crack-the-code conspiracy? What goes on at 7:11 pm?
Lastly, what's with the PRINT BUTTON THING? PRINTER-FRIENDLY version?! Oh, please, EGO much?! HAHAHA! Just kidding, kisses sweetie! Off to print your drivel! :-)