The power of ‘What the ……?’
A few events and bugs recently have reminded me just how important the inquisitive mindset is to the successful tester. If you have spent anytime alongside someone testing software you will know that it is a life of multiple states.
I won’t pretend that I knew Gerald Weinberg, and to be honest I am not sure that I had heard of him before his passing last week. However, the tributes paid to him, especially by Joe Colantanio, awakened me to one of those people who any tester really should know more about. I encourage you to go and read some of them, (There is a listing of a few here) but learning a little about him has reminded me of…