Cartoon Tester

div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YzKCMr-tcMM/TIDg9uQsMcI/AAAAAAAAASs/o1xHiXBqcFQ/s1600/82+Kitchen+R.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"img border="0" height="452" ox="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YzKCMr-tcMM/TIDg9uQsMcI/AAAAAAAAASs/o1xHiXBqcFQ/s640/82+Kitchen+R.jpg" width="640" //a/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5551319643480633154-9097948871988916363?l=cartoontester.blogspot.com' alt='' //div

span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"Over the last few months I’ve received a few emails/comments were people have said they are inspired to create their own cartoons. I really think this is great and I would love to use this blog over the next month or sonbsp;for people to post their own testing related cartoons. Are you up for the challenge? It would be really good if we get lots of people to create and submit cartoons!/spanbr /br /span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"Hints and Tips:/spanbr /span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"/spanspan style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"Concentrate on the content of the cartoon. Unless you’re a really good artist, the text and dialogue are more important than the drawings, so try an avoid drawing complicated images (e.g. drawing some facial expressions is really hard)/spanbr /span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"Give yourself an hour or two to complete the cartoon./spanbr /span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"Don’t re-invent the wheel. Have a look at other cartoons on the web and see what you can learn from the way they draw them. Some examples to check out:/spanbr /span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"• a href="http://xkcd.com/atom.xml"Xkcd/a/spanbr /span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"• a href="http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/"Hyperbole and a Half/a/spanbr /span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"• a href="http://theoatmeal.com/"The Oatmeal/a/spanbr /span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"• a href="http://notinventedhe.re/"Not invented here/a/spanbr /span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"• a href="http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/"Geek and poke/a/spanbr /br /span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"Email me your cartoons at cartoontesting@googlemail.com by Monday, 20th September./spanspan style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"br //spanbr /span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"I will review the cartoons before posting them, as I don’t want anything that is inappropriate/rude/offensive on the blog./spanspan style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"br //spanbr /span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"Let the fun begin!/spanbr /br /br /span style="font-family: Verdana;"... Onnbsp;a similar note, here's a cartoon that Markus Gärtner designed and I created. Check out his post on a href="http://blog.shino.de/2010/08/28/waterfall-in-theory-or-why-blaming-doesnt-help-at-all/"why blaming doesn't help/a/spanbr /br /br /div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YzKCMr-tcMM/TH5JWBwxLYI/AAAAAAAAASc/A7bHVPO329I/s1600/84+Waterfall+in+Theory.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"img border="0" height="588" ox="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YzKCMr-tcMM/TH5JWBwxLYI/AAAAAAAAASc/A7bHVPO329I/s640/84+Waterfall+in+Theory.jpg" width="640" //a/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5551319643480633154-4638765055397844197?l=cartoontester.blogspot.com' alt='' //div

div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YzKCMr-tcMM/THeoJOxB3vI/AAAAAAAAASU/9RbSXbBl_QE/s1600/49SWhasGotTalent.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"img border="0" height="452" ox="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YzKCMr-tcMM/THeoJOxB3vI/AAAAAAAAASU/9RbSXbBl_QE/s640/49SWhasGotTalent.jpg" width="640" //a/divbr /span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"I forgot about this cartoon but was reminded by a news item on the BBC web site: "Success for 'China's Got Talent' amputee pianist"/spanbr /a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11106935"span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11106935/span/abr /br /span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"I goot a good feeling the testing industry are going to lovenbsp;today's cartoon x x x/spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5551319643480633154-8870661287176620811?l=cartoontester.blogspot.com' alt='' //div

div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"/divdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"/divdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YzKCMr-tcMM/THO8-6-EIoI/AAAAAAAAASM/exhRdgHk7qQ/s1600/81+BackPacker.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"img border="0" height="640" ox="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YzKCMr-tcMM/THO8-6-EIoI/AAAAAAAAASM/exhRdgHk7qQ/s640/81+BackPacker.jpg" width="584" //a/divbr /span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"Actually, it may not be that hard to become an Exploratory Tester. Check out James Bach’s short but to the point blog post about /spana href="http://www.satisfice.com/blog/archives/496"span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"exploratory practitioners/span/adiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5551319643480633154-8477361050394112365?l=cartoontester.blogspot.com' alt='' //div

span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"A few years ago I had the pleasure of writing a Test Strategy for my test group. By the time I finished it, the documentnbsp;was around 30 pages long, with lots of detail and in depth explanations of our approach to testing. I was very proud of it! There was only one problem, nobody read it. It was way too long, the table of contents was enough to put people off. Looking back,nbsp;it was generally a waist of time for me and for the two people who hadnbsp;the miserynbsp;ofnbsp;reviewing it. Since then, I've heard about other testers who have written large/huge test documents which were then ignored./spanbr /span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"br //spanbr /span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"But the other day I wasnbsp;inspired. An artist has created cool posters/paintings using famous literary classics, a href="http://postertext.com/"postertext/a. He has copied all the text from a book, pasted it into the painting and removed some of the text to createnbsp;an image. I thoughtnbsp;I couldnbsp;do the same with my Test Strategy (only it isn't a classic)./spanbr /br /span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"Once again, I cannbsp;be proud of my very own Test Strategy document. What do you reckon? I can now print it out and pin it on desk... although I probably won't do that.../spanbr /br /div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YzKCMr-tcMM/TGxH-3Jb6FI/AAAAAAAAAR0/OyoRJLIQ9c0/s1600/text_cartoon_tester.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"img border="0" height="640" ox="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YzKCMr-tcMM/TGxH-3Jb6FI/AAAAAAAAAR0/OyoRJLIQ9c0/s640/text_cartoon_tester.jpg" width="502" //a/divspan style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"nbsp;Or/spanbr /div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YzKCMr-tcMM/TGxID93ItbI/AAAAAAAAAR4/NtznXo5K9_E/s1600/text_cartoon_bug.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"img border="0" height="640" ox="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YzKCMr-tcMM/TGxID93ItbI/AAAAAAAAAR4/NtznXo5K9_E/s640/text_cartoon_bug.jpg" width="502" //a/divspan style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"br //spanbr /span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"TWITTERS: A special mention to people who follow me on twitter: I apologise if I sent younbsp;loads of DMs. What can I say? I feel ashamed. My only consolation is that I wasn't the only one to fall into the spammer's devilish trap. Until the next time, be assured it won't happen again./spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5551319643480633154-3430023774270839352?l=cartoontester.blogspot.com' alt='' //div

div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YzKCMr-tcMM/TGo68I8B3fI/AAAAAAAAARo/IMEqUb-qCC0/s1600/83+WashingMachine1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"img border="0" height="572" ox="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YzKCMr-tcMM/TGo68I8B3fI/AAAAAAAAARo/IMEqUb-qCC0/s640/83+WashingMachine1.jpg" width="640" //a/divbr /div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5551319643480633154-8928487859661542116?l=cartoontester.blogspot.com' alt='' //div

div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YzKCMr-tcMM/TFLAfnD9CXI/AAAAAAAAAQw/yBXdxAp0OQI/s1600/77+Light+Bulb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"img border="0" bx="true" height="416" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YzKCMr-tcMM/TFLAfnD9CXI/AAAAAAAAAQw/yBXdxAp0OQI/s640/77+Light+Bulb.jpg" width="640" //a/divbr /span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"When I approach a new testing project, I can be all the people from this cartoon. Sometimes I worry that I haven't got the right skills/training for the project. Sometimes I think the project isn’t exciting enough so I don't put my all into it. I might worry that I'll make a huge mistake (like not find obvious bugs) and get the blame, or even the sack! On occasions, I ask all the right questions but then don't follow-up on the responses. Metrics can sometimes drive my work rather than highlight how the project is progressing. While in a project, I can be very good at covering my own backside!/spanbr /span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"/spanbr /span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"Where am I going with this? I guess it's important to know how you approach testing projects. If you know you have areas you can develop on, you can tacklenbsp;them as you start your next project. A good way to help you with this is to share your experiences in testing forums/communities. /spanbr /span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"Plus, in Matt Heusser's latest a href="http://www.softwaretestpro.com/Item/4861/A-Sweet-Little-Test-Example/Software-Testing-Quality-Assurance-Acceptance-How-To"blog post/a, you can definitely fine tune your skills in approaching testing projects. This is a great opportunity to compare your skills with an expert!/spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5551319643480633154-7799637787296229594?l=cartoontester.blogspot.com' alt='' //div

span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"There is a lot of talk about testers breaking software: articles, blog posts and even books on this topic. It seems that a lot of testers get their job satisfaction in breaking stuff and a sign of a good tester is that they can break anything. But when they’re testing, are they really breaking s/w? /spanbr /span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"/spanbr /div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YzKCMr-tcMM/TBtniIZf3OI/AAAAAAAAAPw/EhctHBHOAww/s1600/cartoon1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"img border="0" height="386" qu="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YzKCMr-tcMM/TBtniIZf3OI/AAAAAAAAAPw/EhctHBHOAww/s400/cartoon1.jpg" width="400" //aspan style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"/span/divdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"If this was the case, different techniques for breaking s/w would have been created and refined over the years… /span/divspan style="font-family: Verdana;"/spanbr /div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YzKCMr-tcMM/TFLJypaqJ_I/AAAAAAAAARY/oEeqKKxiv_A/s1600/cartoon2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"img border="0" bx="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YzKCMr-tcMM/TFLJypaqJ_I/AAAAAAAAARY/oEeqKKxiv_A/s320/cartoon2.jpg" //a/divdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"Or /span/divspan style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"/spanspan style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"/spanbr /div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"/divdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YzKCMr-tcMM/TFLGoz5zLNI/AAAAAAAAARA/eaEIgRq5ZcM/s1600/cartoon3_Hourse.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"img border="0" bx="true" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YzKCMr-tcMM/TFLGoz5zLNI/AAAAAAAAARA/eaEIgRq5ZcM/s640/cartoon3_Hourse.jpg" width="640" //a/divbr /span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"And possibly in a galaxy far, far away.../spanbr /div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YzKCMr-tcMM/TBtoC_p4SzI/AAAAAAAAAQI/_bgeb_wNM9Y/s1600/cartoon4_yoda.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"img border="0" height="320" qu="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YzKCMr-tcMM/TBtoC_p4SzI/AAAAAAAAAQI/_bgeb_wNM9Y/s400/cartoon4_yoda.jpg" width="400" //aspan style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"/span/divdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"Another opinion which is very different is that testers don’t break s/w, but rather the s/w is already broken before testers get their hands on it. In this case, a major role of the tester is to identify where the software is broken. /span/divspan style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"br //spanspan style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"Initially, testers may question the s/w engineers’ abilities since they are delivering broken code. But on reflection, the errors may have been introduced before the coding had started and if it wasn’t for the engineer’s mistakes, the tester wouldn’t have a job to do anyway./spanbr /div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"/divdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YzKCMr-tcMM/TFLIGeqTJfI/AAAAAAAAARQ/AhNW62KX5EA/s1600/cartoon6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"img border="0" bx="true" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YzKCMr-tcMM/TFLIGeqTJfI/AAAAAAAAARQ/AhNW62KX5EA/s400/cartoon6.jpg" width="400" //a/divbr /span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"Therefore, the testing techniques and methods deployed by the tester when testing the s/w should revolve around identifying the areas that are broken. /spanbr /span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"br //spanbr /span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"When something is broken, it’s an error that has manifested itself as a software fault, or bug. The tester’s role is to spot or discover these bugs as they reveal themselves. An expert tester is able to spot them quickly, in an effective manner. /spanbr /span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"How do they spot them quickly? It’s because the expert testers believe in the ancient Chinese warrior Sun Tzu, who taught his men to “Know your enemy”. Expert testers know their bugs. They know where they often hide, know how they operate, what kind of diversion techniques they use and they know how they reproduce. /spanbr /div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YzKCMr-tcMM/TBtoaq7RynI/AAAAAAAAAQY/rDWhT6cKag8/s1600/cartoon5_cctv.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"img border="0" height="400" qu="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YzKCMr-tcMM/TBtoaq7RynI/AAAAAAAAAQY/rDWhT6cKag8/s400/cartoon5_cctv.jpg" width="400" //a/divbr /span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"Would you like to be an expert tester? To be an expert tester you need to start thinking like a bug, get in the bugs’ shoes. Get to know everything about bugs./spanspan style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"br //spanspan style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"br //spanspan style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"Every time you approach s/w to test, think before you start: How would a bug reveal it self in this s/w? Or in short: What Would Bugs Do? This can be shortened so it’s easier to remember: “WWBD?” And if that is still hard to remember, there is lots of stuff out there you could order to help you recall “WWBD?”: T-shirts, wrists bands, mugs, etc. /spanbr /div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"br //span/divdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YzKCMr-tcMM/TFLF9VmvxSI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/_lsf55Qj9-w/s1600/ladybirdflyMug.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"img border="0" bx="true" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YzKCMr-tcMM/TFLF9VmvxSI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/_lsf55Qj9-w/s640/ladybirdflyMug.jpg" width="640" //a/divspan style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"Happy bug hunting :o) /spanbr /br /br /span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"*************************************************************/spanbr /br /span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"Of course, the ultimate testing expert doesn’t have an enemy. The ultimate testing expert works closely with the developers to reduce the number of bugs created in the first place… but that’s another story./spanbr /br /span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"*************************************************************/spanbr /span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"br //spanbr /span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"Trivia:/spanspan style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"br //spanspan style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"The first testers who came up with the idea that testers don't break software were most likely Cem Kaner or John Bach during the mid nineties. A gold star for anyone how cannbsp;confirmnbsp;the correctnbsp;date and place for this./spanbr /br /span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"Links:/spanbr /span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"The main theme of the post is around discovering bugs. This links well to exploratory testing, do check out Michael Bolton’s list of /spanspan style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"a href="http://www.developsense.com/resources.html"resources for exploratory testing/anbsp;articles/blog posts./spanbr /span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"The next testing book I wan to read isnbsp;"a href="http://www.amazon.com/How-Break-Software-Practical-Testing/dp/0201796198/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8amp;s=booksamp;qid=1276292942amp;sr=1-1"How to break software/a" by James Whittaker. He seems to have a different opinion to this blog post. I'll let you know if James changes my mind./spanbr /br /span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"Here’s another cartoon from /spana href="http://simply-the-test.blogspot.com/2010/04/different-goals.html"span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"Torsten J. Zelger/span/aspan style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;" about breaking software./spanbr /br /span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"*************************************************************/spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5551319643480633154-3887104905393975664?l=cartoontester.blogspot.com' alt='' //div

div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YzKCMr-tcMM/TEmz-5y52mI/AAAAAAAAAQo/vGDawvf_4PM/s1600/11LEFTHANDED.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"img border="0" height="628" hw="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YzKCMr-tcMM/TEmz-5y52mI/AAAAAAAAAQo/vGDawvf_4PM/s640/11LEFTHANDED.jpg" width="640" //a/divbr /span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"Guess what?! The STC have just released a new testing newspaper, a href="http://blog.softwaretestingclub.com/2010/07/the-testing-planet-has-landed/"THE TESTING PLANET/a!!! They've included 4 never seens cartoons. I managed to get a hard copy and the whole newspaper looks great, with good and relevant articles and it has a crossword too – they’ve thought of everything!/spanbr /br /span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"While on a similar topic, I must thank Rob Lambert from STC. He was the first tester to see my cartoons and he gave me lots of positive feedback. If it wasn’t for him, this blog might never have happened. One of Rob’s recent blog posts was about loosing one’s a href="http://thesocialtester.posterous.com/on-fire-7"testing mojo/a… after my time out (and all the sport on TV) I’ve lost mine, I must find it back./spanbr /br /span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"Just a quick note on one the cartoons in the testing planet as I feel I need to explain my self!/spanbr /span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"The naked tester cartoonnbsp;- (which is on the same page as articles from Lisa Crispin and Anne-Marie Charrett. I’m not worthy!) the idea originated from some one in my team who came up with the name “the naked smoke test”; where we trimmed down an older automated smoke test so it would run quicker. Unfortunately the name didn’t stick. Some testers didn’t like it and the developers were really scared, I think they thought we were going to run the automated smoke test while naked – What’s scary about that?/spanbr /br /span style="font-family: Verdana;"... Anyway, do download a href="http://blog.softwaretestingclub.com/2010/07/the-testing-planet-has-landed/"The Testing Planet/a, it's a great read./spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5551319643480633154-68206114961195440?l=cartoontester.blogspot.com' alt='' //div

div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"/divdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YzKCMr-tcMM/TCOAATpCTEI/AAAAAAAAAQg/rQW55mgNXew/s1600/29ReasonsToStopTesting+R.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"img border="0" height="410" ru="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YzKCMr-tcMM/TCOAATpCTEI/AAAAAAAAAQg/rQW55mgNXew/s640/29ReasonsToStopTesting+R.jpg" width="640" //a/divdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"I created this cartoon many months ago but I’ve been saving for now… If I remember correctly, I drew a draft of the cartoon and then read a a href="http://www.developsense.com/blog/2009/09/when-do-we-stop-test/"post/a from Michael Bolton which helped me finish it off./span/divdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"br //divdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"The reason I’m posting it today is because I’m going to take a short break from the cartoon blog… not just because the World cup is in full flownbsp;and the Tour span class="goog-spellcheck-word"de/span France is just round the corner, but also (drum roll) I am a now a proud father to a wonderful daughter, born on the 23rd June!! Mother and the two older brothers are doing well :o)/spanspan style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"br //spanspan style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"/span/divdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"br //divdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"I will stay in contact (email/twitter) so feel free to drop me a line. I will continue to post cartoons over the next month, but not as many as usual… Now lets all hope Spain win at the world cup.nbsp;span class="goog-spellcheck-word"Venga/span span class="goog-spellcheck-word"España/span!/span/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5551319643480633154-6643520497701198767?l=cartoontester.blogspot.com' alt='' //div

div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YzKCMr-tcMM/TBpuVjis7XI/AAAAAAAAAPY/cBJDy_FNdDk/s1600/80QAfight.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"img border="0" height="640" qu="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YzKCMr-tcMM/TBpuVjis7XI/AAAAAAAAAPY/cBJDy_FNdDk/s640/80QAfight.jpg" width="570" //a/divdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"br //divdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"br //divspan style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"/spanbr /span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"Actually, there is a better way to find out which one is better./spanbr /span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"Michael Bolton wrote an article on this very topic (check outnbsp;his /spana href="http://www.developsense.com/blog/2010/05/testers-get-out-of-the-quality-assurance-business/"span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"blog post/span/aspan style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"). Now, span class="goog-spellcheck-word"Eurostar/span have setup a /spana href="http://www.eurostarconferences.com/webinars/testers-get-out-of-the-qa-business.aspx"span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"span class="goog-spellcheck-word"webinar/span/span/aspan style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;" for Michaelnbsp;to present his opinions about span class="goog-spellcheck-word"QA/span and testing. I've already sign up to attend. His article is so good, thatnbsp;a couple of weeks back I organised a group discussion on it duringnbsp;a team meeting. It was a worthwhile activity :o)/spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5551319643480633154-82514740709170593?l=cartoontester.blogspot.com' alt='' //div

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NOTE: this cartoon was first published in the Software Testing Club magazine

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