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Why Don't Managers Understand What Good Testing Is?

Almost 10 years ago, I was sitting having a quiet drink waiting for a couple of friends to arrive when a fellow walked over and sat down. Did not ask if he could, just sat down. Rude bugger. He was a senior boss type in his own organization. I was... not a boss type. Still, he sits down and asks me a question. "I don't know how you deal with this. I would think you get this all the time. It seems like every few months I get called into  my manager's office to answer questions about why we do what we do and why we don't do what these "experts" say we should be doing. It can be everything from metrics that are supposed to show us where all the problems are or sometimes some best practice that someone is pushing or some tool or other for test management or some requirements tracking tool that lets you show what you're testing and how much testing you're doing and how good a job testing you're doing or something. I explain to him why that stuff ...
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Mons to Ypres, 1914

Around dawn of 23 August, 1914, the Imperial German Army fell upon  the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) at Mons - covering the left flank of the French V Army which was in the process of falling back from fighting the day before. The BEF was outnumbered roughly 3 to 1, and were barely considered competent to stand by the German High Command. By the time night came, German forces had suffered some 5,000 casualties for the 1,600 British - massive losses for a single day of fighting at the time. The German force had been thrown back several times, until they learned to spread out and make themselves harder targets for the British riflemen, machine gunners and artillery. In a massive fighting retreat against over whelming odds, the British Army fought in Europe for the first time since the Crimean War and punched the Imperial German Army in their collective noses. The continued retreat of the French V Army forced the BEF to withdraw first to on position than to another. Myths r...
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August of 1914 - The Beginning

This blog contains nothing more or less than my personal views and ideas around software testing. I've worked for small companies from startups looking to make a leap, to large companies looking to expand their hold on the world. I've worked in software as a developer, various forms of analyst, project manager, scrum master and tester. I have done this for over 30 years. No one thing here is drawn from a single source. I am not certain that anyone can really do that unless they are out and out plagiarizing some other persons work. Instead, what will be found here is my thoughts around software and testing at the moment I am writing them down. Time changes things - the experience we had today can impact our views on an experience a week or two ago. It may colour those views or reveal them in a different light. At any rate, these are mine. I hope they are of value to someone other than me. If so, wonderful. If not, that is alright too.
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