He went to lunch early again. My fellow cube-mates and I were still working on our daily test pass. We efficiently, and carefully walked through line-after-line of test cases in a database. …

How do people fix their wonky software? They reboot it. Working as a software tester on a cable set-top box right out of school, I was supposed to test some things like the ability to change channels and that websites were shrunk down to fit on a TV. We were…

The lab was a dark place at night with rows and rows of computers running test automation. The CPUs spun up, the heat went up, and the screensavers turned on. …

Driving back through my college town, my mind drifted back to visions of tumbling Satellites lighting the sky on a spring evening. A submarine captain hits the periscope because his underwater message can’t get through. A missile lands hundreds of meters off target. …

It has been a long time in the making, and not all our making, but the JaSON dependency has been removed. We have toiled tirelessly, with fleeting moments of test-pass boredom, and occasional moments of true-positive test failure glory. We used to be derided as simple ‘checks’, but we are…

It is easty to write a few lines of code, quite another to test it. Ever wondered why computer programs can’t simply be proven correct like some logic or math problem? Why does Software need all this testing? The reasons are many, and date back to the origins of computer…

NFTs prove to be even more interesting in the new year. Here is the latest on my little experiment to explore NFTs and showcase TestNerds. In the past weeks, I’ve seen bugs in NFT infrastructure, upset some folks, and minted a few more NFTs for 2022 to celebrate a nerdy…

When I made the move from Microsoft to Google, the culture shock was immediate. When I asked for the goals of the next software release, the response wasn’t more features, it was ‘suck less’! I learned a lot about software at that moment. Selectors are a key part of the…

Update: Things got a little interesting and we’ve all learned a bit about the world of crypto with a chance to participate week. The NFTs all sold, but not exactly the way I suspected. The identity owning the bulk of the first batch of NFTs seems to be a Tester…