Nicholas Snogren
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7 years 1 monthNicholas has been a tester for 3 years at healthcare and finance companies. Previously he worked as a senior project analyst for an insurance auditing company. Nicholas is also an awarded classical musican.
Job Function
Testing
Interests
Agile
Architecture
Leadership
Lean
Measurement & Metrics
Open Source
Process Improvement
Project Management
Release Management
Requirements/Business Analysis
Software Development
Test Automation
Testing/QA
Country
United States
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X-ray Vision and Exploratory TestingImagine you have X-ray vision. Instead of seeing through walls, you can see the inner structure of programs, the bugs lying inside, and how to expose them. Anyone could execute the steps you gave them to reproduce the bugs. The difficulty in testing, then, is not in executing steps; it is figuring out what steps to take. How do you find those hidden bugs? We need to be the X-ray vision. |