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The Evil Tester Question Time is back! This is your chance to ask a very Evil Tester a question and get some scrumptious and devious answers to your most pressing problems resolved.  Anything goes here! Selected (great & challenging & humorous) questions will be answered in the next edition of The Testing Planet.

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An Interview with Stefan Butlin – Founder of TestPad

We recently came across a new test management tool, TestPad, which takes a different approach to test management.  Along our journey we met and spoke to the founder of TestPad, Stefan Butlin. What is Testpad? Testpad is an online tool to plan and execute manual testing, whether that’s making ad-hoc testing less ad-hoc, steering exploratory [...]

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The Monday Times

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How To Test Documentation

[Got a testing tip? Why not share it?] This is a follow up to the previous article - Documentation and The Tester. Proof Read for Spelling and Grammar - Some may sneer at the notion of a technical writer making simple errors. That’s silly. The hard part is organizing information and presenting it cogently. Give me that, [...]

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Test Idea Generation – with Stack Overflow

[Got a testing tip? Why  not submit it and get published?] I’m sure we’ve all had days where we need a bit of help coming up with test ideas.  Even more so if the area of technology we are dealing with is new. One way to get a feel of where things can go wrong is to [...]

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Documentation and The Tester

Over my years in the software business I have come to realize that the task of creating documentation for software is more than just a parallel activity to testing it. The two tasks have some interesting similarities, and if we can take advantage of it there is real opportunity for synergy. The Development Perspective Consider [...]

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The Monday Times

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Introducing Our New Editor

Things here are growing and whilst our fabulous chief boss boss editor Rob Lambert is not going anywhere, he was in desperate need of a supporting editor. As it turns out, we didn’t have to look far. Say hello to Simon Knight, Editor of The Testing Planet.  We are yet to meet face to face, [...]

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The Marketeer and The Tester

It seems like we are so preoccupied with the relationships between testers and developers that we seem to conveniently forget all other business functions and relationships. I have had a bit of a dual role in the past few years. Part tester. Part marketeer. Part business owner. Part sales. Yep, it comes with the role [...]

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The Monday Times

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