Front Lines of Software Testing

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...

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.