The Evil Tester Show - Software Testing and Development with Attitude

The Why Special - do you ask why? How else can you ask questions that get results?


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Software Testing can be seen as the art of asking questions to Software. So we have to learn how to ask effective and targeted questions. That's the focus of this episode.

"Why?" is an incredibly popular question. I think it has problems. I try to avoid it when I'm consulting. In this show we will examine "Why?" and under what circumstances I do use it. "Why?" is almost a default question because it can take the place of every other question. It is easy to ask. We don't even need to know what answer we want. It's also a very ambiguous question, and when we ask why there is a risk that people try to read into our motivation, and that people might take offence. Show notes will be available at https://eviltester.com/show

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The Evil Tester Show - Software Testing and Development with AttitudeBy Alan Richardson - Software Testing and Development Consultant

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