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		<title>Finding Nemo &#8211; Solving Pradeep&#8217;s software testing challenge (an exploratory approach)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back on December, Pradeep Soundararajan set a challenge up in his blog.
He built an application with the description below:

This was an interesting exercise.
What took my interest in this one?
- First of all, I liked Pradeep&#8217;s post about learning to code.
Learning to code is an important skill for a tester. I can relate to it because [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://testing.gershon.info/201002/nemo-solving-exploratory-approach/</link>
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		<title>Yay, another Happy New Testing Year!  A decade in review&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is our fourth Happy New testing Year post, after this one, this one and this one. :)
So, a few hours before January is over, I&#8217;ll transpose here an answer to Testing.StackExchange about the last decade on testing:
Question: What are the most important software testing developments of the decade?
My Answer:
The question asks about the most important developments&#8230; Not the best [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://testing.gershon.info/201001/yay-another-happy-new-testing-year-a-decade-in-review/</link>
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		<title>Software Testing is Funny! with Demetri Martin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
One best friend of mine introduced me to Mitch Hedberg and Demetri Martin, great one-liner comedians. They are/were two funny men!! Three, actually, if you count my friend which is also funny. 
After hearing the disks for over a year, not only the jokes aren&#8217;t any less funny, but I&#8217;ve started to find subliminal testing messages [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://testing.gershon.info/200912/testing-is-funny-with-demetri-martin/</link>
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		<title>Testing questions and the Laws of eCommerce</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Disclosure: I am not a lawyer!) (Request: Are you a lawyer? Please send me corrections  )
Matters related to law, and all the discussions around it, interest me much &#8212; especially when related to Software.
This made me read about the subject and keep contact with the legal representatives within the company I work for. This also motivated [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://testing.gershon.info/200911/testing-and-knowing-the-law-of-ecommerce/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Create your testing portfolio&#8221; presentation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some colleagues and I do voluntary work at TechCareer, helping immigrants learn matters related to technology and score a career in the Israeli Hi-Tech industry either as programmers or testers. It is a very good project, with nice leaders.
My colleague Issi Hazan was asked to teach the ITCQB syllabus to testing-oriented-students at TechCareer, but he [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://testing.gershon.info/200909/create-your-testing-portfolio-presentation/</link>
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		<title>In August, a rewrite of July&#8217;s uTest post (and maybe official feedback)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi.
Instead of a new post, I revisited and modified last month&#8217;s post, About youTesting with uTest.
It has now more content, and still has a discussion of pay-per-bug models.
The initial opinions are still there. While the pay-per-bug model presented by uTest is certainly innovative and interesting; the model still misses a lot. It will certainly be center of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://testing.gershon.info/200908/in-august-a-rewrite-of-julys-utest-post-and-maybe-official-feedback/</link>
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		<title>About youTesting with uTest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Note: This post,originally from July, was re-written in August. Only format/wording changes, with additions to make it clearer)
This is an interesting topic:
I’ve been involved lately in many conversations about uTest, or more specifically about its model.
uTest is a website where companies can post their software, along with some guidelines on focus areas, and users around [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://testing.gershon.info/200907/about-youtesting-with-utest/</link>
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		<title>BOtT: Smile, your data is gone!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As most words, &#8220;quality&#8221; has a lot of different meanings to different people.
I guess &#8220;Customer Satisfaction&#8221; has a lot of different meanings too.
A couple of months ago I tried to access a site (now I don&#8217;t even remember which it was) and was greeted by the note below:

Let&#8217;s read that again: &#8220;The attack was not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://testing.gershon.info/200906/bott-smile-youre-data-is-gone/</link>
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		<title>Exploratory Shopping &#8211; An analogy attempt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These days I went to a book fair of a well known publishing house, and found there my very own analogy for Exploratory Testing.
I tell the story and analogy below for your pondering and criticism.  
You know how these fairs are, I believe book fairs are similar everywhere: a loft filled with tables filled [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://testing.gershon.info/200905/exploratory-shopping-an-analogy-attempt/</link>
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		<title>Read the bugs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Eric Sink is very well known in the software development community. I would say he&#8217;s a legend, but he says he&#8217;s not one.
He writes books, software, and gives interviews about the craft and business of software. Not only that, but (not surprisingly) he&#8217;s also got a blog.
Two months ago he wrote that reading your colleagues [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://testing.gershon.info/200904/read-the-bugs/</link>
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		<title>Job Description</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was reading a job position offering these days for a &#8220;QA engineer&#8220;.
There was the usual mumbo jumbo of the required traits (&#8220;BSC in computer science or equivalent&#8220;, &#8220;Worked directly with R&#038;D department&#8220;) and advantage points (&#8220;General knowledge of at least one mainstream (programming) language&#8220;), and one of the requirements lines said &#8220;Testing methodologies: STD, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://testing.gershon.info/200903/job-description/</link>
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		<title>On certified testers and being certifiable, and on non native english speakers :)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I like the SQE.
SQE brings columns by Michael Bolton almost monthly on the Better Magazine. They also arrange the nice STAR conferences (hadn&#8217;t the opportunity to participate yet, but I will eventually) and store a large number of articles online of all testing flavors.
Today morning I was greeted by an Email from SQE: The subject read &#8220;Are you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://testing.gershon.info/200902/on-certified-testers-and-being-certifiable-and-on-non-native-english-speakers/</link>
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		<title>Testing Insights &#8211; The Graphing Calculator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently heard The Graphing Calculator Story, a ~54:00 min long Google Tech video on YouTube. On it, Ron Avitzur tells the story of the development of his (and Greg&#8217;s) Graphing Calculator, an impressive mathematical software that shipped with Mac computers for years.
What&#8217;s special about the story? Well, he did it at Apple, but for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://testing.gershon.info/200902/testing-insights-the-graphing-calculator/</link>
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		<title>Happy New Testing Year! Yet again!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the third Happy New testing Year, after this one and this one. 
This is quite exciting, three new years means two full years!
Let&#8217;s recapitulate my 2008 blogging activity:

This last year I did not do my self-goal of at least 12 posts, due to the account problem at the beginning of the year.
From the new posts, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://testing.gershon.info/200901/happy-new-testing-year-yet-again/</link>
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		<title>Stuart&#8217;s introductions to Fitnesse, FitNesse Series (Part 2)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi.
Writing the Fitnesse posts turned to be harder than I thought.
I do have a bit of tests ready for the triangle case, but not enough text to make an interesting post. As I&#8217;m not using Fitnesse in my day-to-day work, it makes it harder to bring cool insights or to explore on the framework.
But I just discovered someone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://testing.gershon.info/200811/stuarts-introductions-to-fitnesse-fitnesse-series-part-2/</link>
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		<title>BotT: Linus&#8217; bug, youtube no workee!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi everybody!
The last BotT (Bug of this time) was long ago, when we talked about testing and the Excel bug.
So now we&#8217;ve got a cool one, on which the most notable point is not the bug, is the submitter  .
Bug 439858 on Fedora (a Linux distribution) was (supposedly) submitted by Linus Torvalds himself. He started [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://testing.gershon.info/200810/bott-linus-bug-youtube-no-workee/</link>
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		<title>SIGiST Conference, my lecture on Fuzz and Fault Injection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this year I held a session on the &#8220;SIGiST Israel&#8221; conference.
It was a one hour lecture introducing advanced techniques, with examples of software testing through Fault Injection (with HEAT tools) and through Fuzz (variety of free tools). This month I received the average grade from the feedback sheets: 97/100!
Of course, I&#8217;m happy with the results. :) Thanks to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://testing.gershon.info/200808/sigist-conference-my-lecture-on-fuzz-and-fault-injection/</link>
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		<title>5 things I learned at SIGiST Conference, day 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Annotations from day 24/06/2008 of the Sigist conference on Software Testing.
When not from a lecture focus, then from a side comment or explanation. Below you&#8217;ll find some insights I gained from today&#8217;s lecture. When not from a lecture focus, the ideas come from a side comment or explanation:


Map everything.
Vipul&#8217;s &#8220;I have a dream&#8221; talk described an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://testing.gershon.info/200806/5-things-i-learned-at-sigist-conference-day-1/</link>
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		<title>Testers don&#8217;t think like Developers think like Computers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We all are told constantly not to think like a programmers.
We&#8217;ve told other people dozens of times &#8220;Don&#8217;t you think like a programmer. We don&#8217;t care why the software does it &#8211; it is still wrong&#8221;.

For testers, thinking like developers is evil. If you think like a programmer, you&#8217;ll start excusing the software and will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://testing.gershon.info/200806/testers-dont-think-like-developers-think-like-computers/</link>
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		<title>Set the butterflies free &#8211; now I am collecting quotes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve started a quote collection. Many times I want to quote someone but I just don&#8217;t remember how exactly the phrase was. Or remember the quote but am not certain on the source&#8230;
I am fond of quoting.
Not sure why, but I like to quote. I guess it gives some legitimating to what I am saying.  
So, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://testing.gershon.info/200806/set-the-butterflies-free-now-i-am-collecting-quotes/</link>
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