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The Day the F Went Missing

A few weeks ago, I was reading the latest Spin post and noticed that the "f" was missing from the word "find."

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More Ways to Test – Testing for App Consistency

If consistency between app and web portal is not always great, your users are going to notice. Pay attention to what your app is doing, and be consistent.

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Mind the Bus & Go on Red: Overcoming Biases and Assumptions

Want to overcome your biases and assumptions? Try setting aside a testing session where you deliberately do things differently and in different orders.

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More Ways to Test – Is it a Good Story?

In software testing, you could focus on the layout. But you should also look at the other qualities, the aspects that hold the "story" together.

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Time for Tea – 10 Ways to Test a Kettle

Looking at everyday items and wondering how they are tested can give you ideas about designing and testing your product.

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More Ways to Test – Quick Attacks on CRUD Apps

A quick attack toolkit for exploratory testing of Create, Read, Update, Delete apps.

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I Found a Bug, What Next?

Make bug reports clear, accurate, and incredibly useful with the RIMGEA testing mnemonic.

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Quick Attacks One Click Away

BugMagnet makes it easy to quickly, thoroughly test an input field with only a right-click.

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Spilling Cheques – On the Limitations of Testing Tools

I can use tools to help me write this blog post, but I also need to be aware of the limitations of those tools.

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More Ways to Test – Follow the Data

One of the exploratory testing techniques I use is a "Follow The Data" tour – tracking a piece of data through the system.

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More Ways to Test – Lights, Camera, Action, Bugs!

Just like making software, producing complex things is hard. When humans are involved, mistakes happen.

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What’s the Risk? – Learning from Others’ Mistakes

Users have many needs and can use things in ways that you never thought of. Learning from other people's mistakes can help you avoid these same traps.

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