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…

I took some time to re-survey the testing landscape. In the process, I discovered some newer voices and rediscovered some familiar voices. I even re-explored the recent and distant history of formalized testing itself all the way back to Alan Turing and Ada Lovelace. …

I spent the first few warm days of summer in a cold, empty, and dark computer lab. Worse than just being nerdy, I was stressed. Our senior project had us partnered with Lockheed to design a magical computer chip — one that detects errors in messages and that can even…

Much like the book, Thinking, Fast and Slow, testing often falls into one of two buckets, ‘fast’ and ‘slow’. Fast, unconscious-like testing consists of quick checks, with little or no thinking to determine if a test should pass or fail. Fast tests click through test case steps with haste and…

How do the most well-funded, sophisticated software test teams on the planet test everything? — they don’t! There is a new way to test that delivers great coverage, finds important bugs early, and ensures that core functionality works on every new release. This new way isn’t well described because it…

The AITF (AI Test Framework) Community Edition has been in the hands of a few brave souls the past two weeks. Our enterprise customers have the test.ai team to get things setup and running seamlessly, but we are deliberately letting the Community Edition folks try it without our help, to…