I’ve been reading a bit about the Technological Singularity. It’s an interesting and chilling idea conceived by people who aren’t testers. It goes like this: the progress of technology is increasing exponentially. Eventually the A.I. technology will exist that will be capable of surpassing human intelligence and increasing its own intelligence. At that point, called the Singularity, the future will not need us… Transhumanity will be born… A new era of evolution...

I just read this on another blog:

“Regression testing is usually seen as the poorer cousin of ‘proper’ domain-abstracted assertion-based testing. Often rightly so!”

In twenty years of doing testing, managing testing, attending many many conferences and reading many papers and books on testing, I have not heard of “domain-abstracted assertion-based testing”.

I...

This is my new office on Orcas Island. The rest of the house is piled high with boxes, but at least this part is functional. The body of water outside is East Sound, which is about a mile wide. The west side of the island rises up on the other side.

It’s peaceful here, except for the seaplanes that take off under my...

I just finished a 10 day drive across the U.S. with my son. We just moved from Virginia to Orcas Island, Washington. My Internet and telephone is not yet set up, and we are madly trying to direct the movers and such. If you have emailed me, this is why I’m so slow in responding.

I anticipate it will be a couple weeks before I have a hope of catching up.