Comments on: He Who Can Not Be Tested

By: Three texts that changed my (testing) life « Testing Thoughts

Three texts that changed my (testing) life « Testing Thoughts — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:40:25 +0000

[...] Aspects of Strategic Defense Systems” by Dr David Lorge Parnas. I commented about it on a previous post about hard-to-test software. This paper taught me about the difficulties of software testing and the responsibilities it [...]

By: More on ‘Things Which Can Be Tested’ :) | Testing Thoughts

More on ‘Things Which Can Be Tested’ :) | Testing Thoughts — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 00:20:53 +0000

[...] Now, here is more about testing untestable systems. Please read “He Who Can Not Be Tested” and “He Who Will Be Tested!” before you continue, if you want to be in the mood. [...]

By: He Who Will Be Tested! | Testing Thoughts

He Who Will Be Tested! | Testing Thoughts — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 22:24:44 +0000

[...] My past post on ‘apparently untestable systems‘ turned out to be a very cool experience. I talked with a lot of friends about it, and also had a very informative thread running on the comp.software.testing usenet group. The discussion was called “Is every single program testable? How do you deal with ‘untestable’ software?” [...]

By: Shmuel Gershon

Shmuel Gershon — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 13:24:17 +0000

Pradeep, thanks for honoring me with your visit. A follow-up post to this post is on it’s way, and it would be cool to insert your opinions too — post what you think about this, if you can.

(Know Pradeep: He works at Satisfice with James Bach, and is a very experienced blogger (almost two years). I have a link for his blog in the sidebar list.)

By: Pradeep Soundararajan

Pradeep Soundararajan — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:10:15 +0000

I enjoyed reading this post a lot. I would want to continue the enjoyment for a little while or even more and then come back after a day or two ( if I remember I have to come back ) to post my thoughts.

Thanks a lot for this wonderful piece!

By: How To Use Your Awareness To Keep You From Crashing | MonkAtWork.com

How To Use Your Awareness To Keep You From Crashing | MonkAtWork.com — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:17:25 +0000

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By: Shmuel Gershon

Shmuel Gershon — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 22:57:03 +0000

The Scratch-Off story remembers me a joke:

A young man bought a donkey from a farmer for $100.00. The farmer agreed to deliver the donkey the next day.
The next day the farmer drove up and said, “Sorry son, but I have some
bad news, the donkey died.”
The young replied, “Well, then, just give me my money back.”
The farmer said, “Can’t do that. I went and spent it already.”
– Ok, then, just bring me the dead donkey.
– What ya gonna do with him?
– I’m going to raffle him off.
– You can’t raffle off a dead donkey!
– Sure I can. Watch me. I just won’t tell anybody he is dead…

A month later the two met again.
“What happened with that dead donkey?”
The youngster said, “I raffled him off. I Sold 500 tickets at two dollars a piece and made a profit of $998.00.”
The farmer said, “Didn’t anyone complain?”
– Just the guy who won. So I gave him his two dollars back.