Ah, your friendly every day mug. A temporary home for your coffee, tea, hot chocolate, common enough that you may use one everyday. So why bother spending the time to consider it for testing? Other posts in this series have been inspired by interview questions I have heard people be asked. Testing a mug falls … [Read more…]
This one is a bit of a classic, it pops up in interviews for a variety of positions even those outside of testing. So how DO you test a pen? Or I suppose in its usual context the emphasis is usually, how do YOU test a pen? When I first heard it posed to someone … [Read more…]
In this second installment of Testing the Arbitrary we’ll take a look at testing a vending machine and create a mind map to record the results. If you are not familiar with mind maps you can take a look at my post Mind Mapping a Stapler for a brief introduction. Similar to a stapler, testing … [Read more…]
Mind Maps are diagrams used to visually organize information. You may recognize them from brainstorming activities you have done in school, that was my first exposure. As part of learning to write essays we started out by brainstorming ideas. We’d put a cloud in the center of our page and in it place the topic … [Read more…]