Five Questions With...Whomever I Can Get To Answer

Today I'm excited to announce that, well, I have this crazy idea that if I email random people asking them questions about testing they will respond. <g/> For the interview, I'll provide the following list and ask them to pick five to answer.

• What was your first introduction to testing? What did that leave you thinking about the act and/or concept of testing?
• What has most surprised you as you have learned about testing/in your experiences with testing?
• What is the most interesting bug you have seen?

• How would you describe your testing philosophy?
• What do you think is the most important thing for a tester to know? To do? For developers to know and do about testing?
• Is there something which is typically emphasized as important regarding testing that you think can be ignored, that is unimportant?

• What do you see as the biggest challenge for testers/the test discipline for the next five years?
• Going meta (to channel Jerry Weinberg), what else should I ask you? What would you answer?
• Is there anything else you would like to say?

"That's quite a lot of questions!" you may be saying. Indeed. That is one reason why I am asking my interviewees to answer just five of these questions - their choice which five.

I will update this post as I publish people's responses, making it a sort of table of contents. First up, on Monday, is Jerry Weinberg!

Here's who I've interviewed so far:

• Scott W. Ambler


• Anu Arora


• James Bach


• Jon Bach


• Scott Barber


• Jason Blue Barile


• Kent Beck


• Kevin Beto


• Rex Black


• Bliss


• Michael Bolton


• Keith Braithwaite


• Lyne Brown


• Gil Broza


• Jim Bullock


• Bill Buxton


• Dave Catlett


• Paul Carvalho


• Michael Corning


• John N. D’Addamio


• Selena Delesie


• Bob Dewing


• Elfriede Dustin


• Danny R. Faught


• Sara Ford


• Tom Gallagher


• Evan Goldring


• Adam Goucher


• James Hamilton


• Elisabeth Hendrickson


• Matthew Heusser


• Douglas Hoffman


• Eric Jacobson


• Ethan John


• Michael Kelly


• Amol Kher


• Dmitri Klementiev


• Jonathan Kohl


• Shrini Kulkarni


• Kyle Larsen


• Dave Liebreich


• Scott Louvau


• Brian Marick


• Chris McMahon


• Joe McMahon


• Edward Miller


• Wayne Miller


• Jim Moore


• Robert Musson


• Alan Myrvold


• Alan Page


• Alvaro Peon-Sanchez


• Jared Quinert


• J. B. Rainsberger


• James Rodrigues


• Bj Rollison


• Johanna Rothman


• Eric Sink


• Ross Smith


• S. Somasegar


• Pradeep Soundararajan


• Keith Stobie


• Robert Straavaldson


• David Treadwell


• Gerald M. Weinberg


• Adam White


• James Whittaker


• Joshua Williams


• Mike Zintel

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