Testing with Swedish Personal Numbers

Fictitious people that might get real – and sue you! Finding realistic data for testing is often a headache, and a good strategy is often to fabricate it. But what if your randomly generated data turns out to belong to a real person? What if they complain and...

Principles of Agile Test Automation

Please note – As of March 2013, I have rewritten this post in the light of further experience and discussions. The updated post is available here. I feel like I’ve spent most of my career learning how to write good automated tests in an agile environment....

Teaching a diverse bunch of Testers

I’ve just spent 3 weeks teaching a class of 11 students about automated testing, as part of a one year course in software testing. The course is organized by the local “Kvalificerade Yrkes Högskolan”, KYH. (loosely translated: Skilled Trade...

developer-in-test role and tester role

In my current assignment, I’m taking the role of “developer-in-test”. I’m working in a large distributed development project, which is building new functionality on a large existing codebase. In practice, I work closely with the developers in...