Exploratory Testing and "The Blogging Idol" competition

I always believed that Quality Assurance and Testing are a combination of Science and Art. One of the arts of testing is Exploratory Testing, where experience is a key factor to the test engineer’s ability to perform effectively.

Well, Blogging is also a combination of a science and an art, and to make it work, you need a lot of experience, just like exploratory testing.

So, welcome to the “Blogging Idol” competition, a 1-month competition where ”small” blogs (under 1000 subscribers on the 1st of July, 2008 ) are encouraged to increase their subscriber count. Since my blog is new, I only have 1 subscriber so far. I really need your help to get that up into the hundreds !

The competition is also aimed at improving bloggers’ experience – each blogger has to write a weekly report, including all the techniques that they have used to improve their subscriber count during the previous week! Everyone in the competition gets to see that list, and try it out on their own blog to see how it helps. Now, that isn’t quite pair-wise testing, more like “hundred-wise” testing!

Whatever we call it, I like the idea, and Debi’Z Blog has joined the competition.

So, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE help me win this, by subscribing to my blog. It’s really easy – all you need to do is click on the right hand corner of the blog, either on “subscribe in a reader” (for that you need to have or set up an RSS reader, I use Netvibes, by the way, but you can use any others), or on “Subscribe to Debi’Z blog by Email“. What this does is that each time I add another post, you receive it by email.

Of course, it would be really cool if you actually commented on my posts, so that my blog would become a center for discussion on QA, Testing, SEO, work and life in general….

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