Category Archives: regulated software testing

Karen’s unedited opinion of test script writing

Posted on February 16, 2009 by karennjohnson

Ok, so some years ago – now I promise this will tie back to a very recent conversation I had with a “tester” – but first – some years ago when I starting work as a newspaper reporter, I was … Continue reading →

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WREST: The Workshop on Regulated Software Testing

Posted on January 21, 2009 by karennjohnson

The second WREST workshop will be held this May in Indianapolis. WREST is the workshop on regulated software testing. The primary goal of the workshop is to cultivate a community among software testers that work with regulated software. It can … Continue reading →

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The trace matrix

Posted on August 21, 2008 by karennjohnson

The trace matrix has always disturbed me. For me, there’s something uncomfortable about taking the complexities of testing and reducing all that intellectual activity, thinking, and effort and squeezing it into a small tidy table that allegedly proves testing is … Continue reading →

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Testing Software in Regulated Environments

Posted on October 22, 2007 by karennjohnson

I had been testing computer software for six years and had worked at three different companies before I walked into my first regulated test environment. I had seen variances in environments, but nothing like this. Regulated environments such as pharma … Continue reading →

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