Chronicles Of Testing

Pre-conference: Some of the attendees at the conference and those who wished to be a part of the pre-conference registered to be at the meetup that was held a day before the Copenhagen CDT conference, courtesy Danske Bank. Pre-conference meetup was kicked off by Paul Holland who used the United States as a software testing analogy and routes to different states in the USA as the test environment. It was an interesting and eye-opening session for most of us present learning about ‘ The Potholes of Automating too much’ and on how NOT to test. Paul being an ex-pilot and with over 20 years of experience in testing, had several gems of lessons to share with us. Points to ponder: How to make sense out of the test environment when performing testing? If the investigation does not happen then why run the tests? The second session was by Keith Klain whom I idolize, his talk was about ‘ How to "Sell" Testing to C-level Management?’ I, along with the other audienc...