I just read a Twitter exchange between @michaelbolton and @adampknight where they mentioned that “testing” problems are often really communication problems. Personally, I find that a big part of my job as a tester is facilitating conversations between the development team and business experts.Different people may have different interpretations of the same set of requirements, [...]

There’s no shortage of excellent test automation tools available today. Many are open source, so the up-front cost is low. Some come with script capture tools or mini-IDEs that speed the learning curve. Many have excellent user guides, tutorials and screencasts available to help testers and teams learn them. The Problem One would think that [...]