Exploratory Testing ... in print and at STAR


By James A. Whittaker

Well my book survived a recession haunted publishing house and my own change of employer and is now available in print. The subtitle even changed as the techniques, which guided manual testing at Microsoft, were reapplied by Google engineers as a way to design test automation.


I'll be at STAR next week in Anaheim to talk about exploratory testing, the subject of the book. Accompanying me will be Rajat Dewan of Google who used the 'FedEx Tour' to reduce a test set from hundreds of manual test cases to exactly 9 automated ones. I hope you'll join us.


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4 comments:

David Kendall said...

To convince me to buy the book... can you post an excerpt about the "FedEx Tour" you mention.

James Whittaker said...

Jesse,

I love the picture. Are you implying the USPS is a better breaker than I am?

Steve said...

The quote from arthur C. Clarke is from the book "Rama II" which I am reading right now, and I purchased this your book at StarWest while reading Rama II. Your ideas helped me see what is important and what I can make better.

Nadim said...

Hi James, I am really glad to see your blog and read it. I went to Florida Tech at the time you were there, I used to work with Annie Becker at the time. I started a QA team for a company in Boston testing online media advertisements called Scanscout. Thanks for the great posts.