Justin Hunter, Founder of Hexawise
This blog is (mostly) about efficient and effective software test design strategies, including pairwise and combinatorial methods that are gaining traction in the testing community. I believe that these testing methods are dramatically under-utilized.
It is my hope and expectation that new tools like Hexawise (designed to be easy-to-use and intuitive) will help make combinatorial testing methods more accessible, less confusing, and more popular.
My convictions in this area are heavily influenced by two factors. First, my father, William G. Hunter, was an applied statistician who passionately promoted Design of Experiments methods in universities, companies, and government agencies. He was a ridiculously smart man who excelled at working with "normal" people and making complex-sounding statistical methods understandable and relevant to improving how things actually got done in the real world. He got great satisfaction, for example in teaching statistical methods of quality improvement to mechanics from the city garage who, in turn, were enthusiastic about using these methods to improve their effectiveness at work. Second, from 2007-2009, I introduced Design of Experiments-based methods of software testing at Accenture and worked with testing teams across the world and saw immediate, dramatic benefits in every single project where we used these methods. In most projects, we were able to more than double tester productivity as measured in defects found per tester hour.
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- Super cool! Yesterday @mashable got me excited about #Leap. Today, thanks to @fredberinger I'm ready to buy it. zite.to/JyGNk5__________________5 days ago
- I like how this job ad from Nice Systems positions Hexawise skills: "Learn advanced... testing w/ Watir, Sikuli, Selenium... and Hexawise."__________________5 days ago
- I'm formalizing the documentation for a non-profit corp today. aztechlabs.wordpress.com/2011/01/08/eig… The guidebook from @NoloLaw is phenomenally helpful.__________________5 days ago
- I'm in Pune, India all week. Promises to be a big week. Assuming all goes well, we'll soon have a new Fortune 100 enterprise-wide client.__________________3 weeks ago
- While in Bangalore, I also met with @ajay184f. His modest disposition stands in stark contrast to his talent and incredible work ethic.__________________3 weeks ago
- Had a great time visiting Moolya Testing last week in Bangalore! @testertested, @santhoshst and team. Stayed out into the wee hours.__________________3 weeks ago
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