Chasing Bugs In the Electronic Village by James Gleick

Microsoft Word is most widely used software across the globe. But at the same time, Users have experienced many issues in this software.

I have come across an article Chasing Bugs In the Electronic Village by James Gleick. This article was published in 1992 & James shares his views on chasing issues in WinWord.

Top Five Reasons You Don't Have Testers

Software Testing & Quality is overlooked and it's quite common to see buggy software in the market. Some of the projects ship software without even having dedicated testers & in some other projects due to budget constraints there are less resources.

I was browsing through Joel on Software site and come across this Joel on Software - Top Five (Wrong) Reasons You Don't Have Testers: article.

As per Joel Perspective the reasons are

1. Bugs come from lazy programmers.
2. My software is on the web. I can fix bugs in a second.
3. My customers will test the software for me.
4. Anybody qualified to be a good tester doesn't want to work as a tester.
5. I can't afford testers!

Won't they look similar in our context

Dealing with NonReproducible Issues - The James Bach way

It's common for the people to come across issues in the software & the same issue may not occur again even after several tries.It occurs very often in the day to day life of Software Testers & Developers.

Today, i was browsing through James Blog & come across this How to Investigate Intermittent Problems article.

I would recommend my blog readers to go through this article & find an abstract below.

The ability and the confidence to investigate an intermittent bug is one of the things that marks an excellent tester. The most engaging stories about testing I have heard have been stories about hunting a "white whale" sort of problem in an ocean of complexity. Recently, a thread on the SHAPE forum made me realized that I had not yet written about this fascinating aspect of software testing.