As I mentioned in a previous post, Mark Tomlinson’s presentation about insight from TestBash 2013 mad a big impression on me. Not just because of the wonderfully confounding spinning cat, but because of the neurological process of insight which has the potential to give testers like us the potential to see things that others can’t. The…
Category: Bias
Battling the Bias
There seems to be a particular word that crops up again and again in blogs, papers and presentations about software testing and beyond: Bias Honestly, it’s everywhere. Some examples: Observational Bias (Darren McMillan, Requirements Analysis & Testing Traps) Darren quite rightly points out the dangers of having visual references (wireframes) at a very early stage…