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A while back, a tester brought a patient in for treatment. It wasn't a human patient; it was a sentence about building and testing in an organization. The tester asked me for help. "Could you provide me with a first aid kit for this statement that came from my management?" "We have to move on to DevOps to be able to release code more often but we also have to increase testautomation in any way we can and minimize manual time consuming testing."... https://www.developsense.com//first-aid-for-the-mission-s/

An article that I was this morning was accompanied by a stock photo with an intiguing building in the background. I wanted to know where the building was, and what its. I thought that maybe Chrome's "Search Google for image" feature could help to locate an instance of the photo where the building was identified. That didn't happen, but I got something else instead.... https://www.developsense.com//bug-of-the-day-ai-sees-bits/

One problem that we face in software development and testing is that data and information aren't the same. Here's an example, prompted by email from a correspondent. There's a Rapid Software Testing Explored class running January 11-14, 2021. It's set to run at times that work for people in Europe and the UK, mostly. The service I use for managing registrations, ... https://www.developsense.com//bug-of-the-day-what-time-ar/

This is your periodic reminder that data has problems, just like code does. A correspondent on LinkedIn pointed me towards a book by George Lakoff, an author I admire. For some reason, I had not been aware of the book. So I looked it up. I wanted to go straight to it, so I put the title in quotes: Hmmm. That's a little strange.... https://www.developsense.com//bug-of-the-day-bad-data-mea/

A tester recently asked "If you're asked to write a 'test plan' for a new feature before development starts, what type of thing do you produce?" I answered that I would produce a reply: I’d be happy to do that. What would you like to see in this test plan? The manager's reply was, apparently, "test cases covering all edge cases we'll need to test". [ 408 more words ] https://www.developsense.com//a-naive-request-from-manage/