Simon Godfrey's Page

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I'm hoping I'm ok to link-through to my blog? Is there any easier way of doing this?

I wanted to talk a little bit about what we’re doing with Exploratory Testing where I work, where it’s come from, where I think its heading and what we’ve done so far.

I’ve been at my current company for around 7 years and as far as I can remember “exploratory testing” has been around for the whole time but for some reason, until recently, its always been used in an “ad-hoc” way and was usually bolted on to the end of a largely scripted test cycle as something of a last minute bug-hunt exercise… Continue

Well, that's the course completed. 4 challenging, thought-provoking, but enjoyable weeks now behind me and a wealth of new knowledge to build on and apply in future testing challenges. The course has certainly highlighted some personal development areas for me, which, top of the pile, is a desire in me to start to form some kind of coding knowldge outside of web-based stuff (note: this desire was there to some degree before taking this course).

The final week was a busy time - we (myself and th… Continue

I said I'd post another update whilst taking the BBST course and so here it is, mid-way through week 3...

Since my last update, the work load has increased and it's been quite difficult to keep up due to pressures in and outside of work, some expected, some not-so! However, it remains enlightening and I continue to learn a lot - what I learn varies from everything from understanding measurement dysfunction, to content covered regarding the impossibility of testng, to simply learning how to read… Continue

I'm currently taking part in the BBST Foundations course, as provided by the Association for Software Testing and I thought it'd be worth putting together a few blog posts to a) raise it's profile and b) give an overview of what it's like / how it's going for me.

The first course available by the AST is the Foundations course and is a pre-requisite for further courses under the title of the Black Box Software Testing modu… Continue