A bug is a bug

I created the following cartoon for ExpoQA, a software testing conference in Madrid, Spain. I had a great experience attending the conference during 2010, one of the highlights was meeting testers from different countries as well as from different continents! I hope this fact comes across well with the cartoon, even if it's about bugs ;)

Pair Testing

The Test Bash has come and gone and what a great 1st conference it was from the STC team. One of the highlights for me was the group testing session led by Markus Gärtner & Huib Schoots. I had the good fortune to pair up with with David Evans (who gave an interesting talk on visualising testing). Although I was still "bricking-it" as my talk was coming up later, I thought we made a good team. David took the wheel (it was his laptop!), we decided to learn what the application was about before drilling down on any specific area. As we toured through the app, I made notes on our observations. By the end of the exercise, we had a good idea of the app's functionality and we managed to identify a few major defects! Good job well done I say!

I've not tried pair testing before (at least not the way we did it at Test Bash). I thought it was a good approach and one that I wanted to try out on a 'real' project rather than just as an exercise. I'm about to start a new project at work and with Adam Brown, we plan to take the testing challenge with pair testing. Wish us luck!

DDP & STC... IMHO TBTSSB

The latest issue of the Testing Plannet is available now, it includes a centre spread (which looks just great!):  "Ten reasons why you fix bugs as soon as you find them" by Matt Archer & me. The issue also includes a couple of my cartoons.

Here's a cartoon from the previous issue about DDP:

 

the caption winner is... [and a cartoon about freedom!]

Thank you all for your suggestions. I found it really hard to decide which one was my faviourite as there were so many great captions! I ended up asking a fellow tester (Adam Brown) to help out with the judging. I then narrowed it down to Christian's caption. It's not only funny but a reminder that bug graphs/metrics don't tell the full Quality picture. Thanks Christian! And thank you all who took part. I may do a similar exercise again in the future...

Slightly random, but I came up with the following cartoon from the above cartoon and a discussion on STC about movie quotes relating to testing.

Guess the caption

In a recent post I asked if you could guess what my original idea for the cartoon was. I received loads of feedback about the cartoon which made me think I should do more posts like it.
Today's cartoon is missing the caption/s. Can you suggest any ideas? You could come up with a the title, a subtitle or a (or a couple) of speech bubbles from the bugs. Give it a go and leave a comment. I'll update the cartoon in a few days with my favourite response.