Michael Hunter, who authors the Testing and Debugging blog at Dr. Dobb’s Journal, asked me for an interview on testing related topics some time back. I’ve long lamented that, industry-wide, there isn’t nearly enough emphasis on test and software quality assurance innovation. For large projects, test is often the least scalable part of the development process.  So, when Michael offered me a platform to discuss test more broadly, I jumped on it. 

Michael structures these interviews, and his subsequent blog entry, around five questions.  These ranged from where I first got involved in software testing, through the most interesting bug I’ve run into, what has most surprised me about testing, what’s the most important thing for a tester to know, and what’s the biggest challenge facing the test discipline over the next five years.

Michael’s interview is posted at: http://www.ddj.com/blog/debugblog/archives/2007/12/five_questions_39.html.

                                                --jrh

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