Dave Whalen is having problems with his data… True story… Once upon a time, Cap’n Dave was contracted to test a commercial banking web application. The testing was pretty straight forward , the application allowed you to view transactions, reconcile your accounts, transfer funds, etc. One requirement, based on US federal regulations, was that a customer [...]

Dave Whalen is hunting out bad practice on the web. Beware, may contain sarcasm.  So you just finished taking an HTML course at your local college and you’ve hung out your banner announcing your newly acquired skills as a Web Master. As a token of good will, you volunteer your services to your local club [...]

There is a school of thought in software testing that debunks the value of positive testing. This school basically states that any test that does not produce a defect is not a good test. Dave Whalen respectfully disagrees. Software tests can be divided into two categories: positive tests and negative tests. A positive test is [...]

A weekend spent as a volunteer on a construction project has resonances with testing for Dave Whalen. Who always has a plan! My wife’s boss bought a small two-bedroom house just west of Denver. He wanted to add to the house and recruited volunteers from his employees, their spouses and kids. A ‘weekend project’ I [...]