My latest testing article is on documentation and exploratory testing. You can read an online version here: Documenting Exploratory Testing. (If you don’t have a login, click the Preview button...
http://www.kohl.ca/2011/content-pointer-documenting-exploratory-testing/
Accountability. This is often a scary word for some people. Sometimes when we are fearful of the results of a decision, or of our work on a project, we will look at what we can do to offload resp...
I was recently involved on a project and noticed something interesting. I was writing documentation for a particular feature, and had a hard time expressing it for a user guide. We had made a par...
Jennitta Andrea sent me her position paper developed for the Tests as Documentation workshop. Unfortunately, she was unable to attend the workshop, but sent this paper with test examples. I li...
http://www.kohl.ca/2004/jennitta-andrea-on-tests-as-documentation/
At this year’s XP Agile Universe conference, Brian Marick and I co-hosted a workshop on Tests as Documentation. The underlying theme was: How are tests like documentation, and how can we use te...
http://www.kohl.ca/2004/tests-as-documentation-workshop-notes/
One aspect of Agile Development that appeals to me, and need not only belong in the Agile Development school of thought, is the value that is placed on face-to-face communication. Paper doesn’t...
Our perceptive equipment lags behind the conceptual skills that we as humans take for granted. As a consequence, linguistic explanations of concepts or feelings are represented by a limited mediu...
http://www.kohl.ca/2004/tacit-knowledge-and-underdetermination/