Is Counting a Bad Idea for Test Effort?

I was going through the post Why counting is a bad idea on Shrini’s Blog on Software Testing. Shirni has listed a classic example on why counting is a bad idea for Testing.
Even though i like this post, I won’t agree fully on the views expressed there. Probably we might need to improve our selves [...]

That’s expected behavior and Not a Bug

I keep hering the following phrases from our Development Team here

That’s an expected behavior and Not a Bug
That’s by Design

Today, I have an interesting debate with our Product Manager on a Issue. He put is as “That’s an Expected Behavior and Not a Bug”
I have been looking at root causes of these problems & why do [...]

Testing World 2006

Hi All,
I have attened the Testing World 2006 conference today & the response was tremendus. The session on Testing Skills That No One Talk About by Michael Bolton was too good and put me in different thought process on the areas left out to explore.
He talks about

General Systems thinking
Critical Thinking
Debating Skills

Testing World 2006 is [...]

Applying Static Analysis for Software Testing

In this post, I will be sharing my views on Static Analysis and how the same is useful for Software Testing. Using Static Analysis in Testing will also be called as Static Testing.
The generic definition for Static Testing is that
Testing of an Application at the specification or implementation level without execution [...]