Here are some of my past articles and book reviews. Many of these have appeared in past issues of the Software Quality Advisor Newsletter. To get your FREE subscription, just sign up here. Enjoy!

General Testing

• Are We Really Ready for Voting Machines?
• What is a Glitch?
• Testing Without Defined Requirements
• How to Destroy Your Credibility as a Tester 
• Building Your Credibility as a Tester 
• How to Rebuild Your Credibility as a Tester
• Things I Tell New Testers 
• Why I'm More Positive About Exploratory Testing 
• Dealing with the Intimidation Factor in Software Testing 
• Testing Wireless Applications 
• Testing COTS-based Applications 
• How Much is Software Quality Worth? 
• Strategies for Integration and Interoperability Testing 
• Managing Expectations in Testing Dirty Systems 
• The Science of Software Testing 
• The Role of Regression Testing in Dirty Systems 
• The Elusive Tester to Developer Ratio 
• Testing Middleware and Firmware 
• Using Test Cycles for Date-driven Testing 
• Testing During Rapid Change 
• Everything I Know About Testing I Learned in the Bible

• A Strategy for Testing SOA

• The Software Cost of Quality Metric

Process Improvement

• TQM is Not Just Dead - It's in an Unmarked Grave
• How are we Doing? - Part 1
• How are we Doing? - Part 2

Career

• Surviving as a Quality Professional in a Flat World

Defects

• I Thought I Saw a Defect, or Did I? 
• The 20 Most Common Software Problems 
• Achieving Software Quality Using Defect Filters 
• Defects are Good

Client/Server Testing

• A Risk-based Approach to Client/Server Testing

Requirements

• Solving the Right Problem - Step One in Software Development 
• Are Use Cases a Substitute for Requirements?

Security

• The Threat of Cyberterrorism

Test Automation

• Surviving the Top Ten Challenges of Software Test Automation

User Acceptance Testing

• What is User Acceptance Testing?
• Keys to Successful User Acceptance Testing 
• User Acceptance Testing - Is It or Isn't It?

Web Testing

• Web Usability Validation
• Identifying and Addressing the Challenges You Face in Testing Web Applications 
• How to Develop Test Cases and Test Scripts for Web Testing 
• Profiling Web Applications for Test Strategies

Book Reviews

• Adaptive Software Development
• Little Green Book of Getting Your Way
• Design for Trustworthy Software
• Weinberg on Writing
• A Practical Guide to Needs Assessment
• Effective Methods for Software Testing, 3rd Ed.
• The World is Flat
• The Art of Possibility
• 25 Ways to Win With People

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