Looking Back The world of software testing today is radically different than it was on this day a decade ago. On New Year's Day 2000 I had been a dedicated software tester for about three years. I was a leader on a team testing an application that provided location information to the dispatchers who handle 911 calls. I was intensely interested in the most progressive thinking about software testing available, because when we released a bug to production, someone could die because of it. I remained interested in the most progressive thinking about software testing throughout the decade. Looking closely, we owe a vast debt to three people: James Bach , Bret Pettichord , and Brian Marick . If they didn't supply every breakthrough idea in software testing in the last decade, one of them was nearby when it happened. There was a shot across the bow in 1996 when Bach published " Test Automation Snake Oil ". This would be the first of a relentless assault on proprietary...
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