Category: Quality Assurance

When HealthCare.gov, the online health insurance marketplace launched, it promised to give residents of 36 states the opportunity to shop for health insurance as required by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Yet, from the moment it went live, the problem-ridden application was effectively unusable for many, even as the deadline to buy healthcare under the ACA… Read more »

I recently installed a GPS tracker on my smartphone to bring on bicycling trips. While I don’t need GPS to find my way on my bike, I do find value in seeing the “trail” I ended up making to get where I was going. My tendency to want to review the path I was on… Read more »

No one in their right mind would say that white-box testing is the only way to test an application. However, in too many instances, black-box testing is, in fact, the only testing approach QA is empowered to use. Rightness of mind notwithstanding, I would argue that this is a mistake and that quality assurance engineers… Read more »

Like many of us, my email inbox is peppered with messages from software vendors who would like to “let me in” on an opportunity to purchase their product. These are not spam, necessarily. They come to me because some time ago, when I was on the hunt for a software testing tool, I hastily provided… Read more »

Lately, I’ve been listening to Hugh Laurie’s pair of piano-driven blues albums “Let them Talk” and “Didn’t it Rain”. I find Laurie’s music both musically pleasing and utterly fascinating. “Fascinating” because, while I listen to his charming and expertly delivered take on some blues classics, I can’t stop thinking, “This isn’t even this guy’s day… Read more »

Long before plastic surgery, the invention of the knife began changing the look of the human face. Recently, anthropologists discovered that the shape of human faces were greatly impacted when we developed the ability to cut meat with a knife. Before this invention, early humans would have to chew a great deal in order to swallow the… Read more »