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“Parrot like an African Grey. Your job, when sitting the
exam, is not to display learning, your job is to regurgitate
whatever you were told or read in the syllabus. Regardless
of what you think about what you were told, your job is to
repeat it back.The “Dear Evil Tester” Letters
11
For multiple choice: don’t think “what is the right answer?”,
instead think “what do they think is the right answer?”
Evil Tester answering "Do you have any tips on taking the {insert
nominated certification board name here}
certification exam?”
―
exam, is not to display learning, your job is to regurgitate
whatever you were told or read in the syllabus. Regardless
of what you think about what you were told, your job is to
repeat it back.The “Dear Evil Tester” Letters
11
For multiple choice: don’t think “what is the right answer?”,
instead think “what do they think is the right answer?”
Evil Tester answering "Do you have any tips on taking the {insert
nominated certification board name here}
certification exam?”
―
“The crises we face are systemic in nature. To overcome those crises we need to understand how systems work. To arrive at such an understanding we need to think systemically.”
― General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications
― General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications
“There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.” —Alan J. Perlis”
― Exploratory Software Testing: Tips, Tricks, Tours, and Techniques to Guide Test Design
― Exploratory Software Testing: Tips, Tricks, Tours, and Techniques to Guide Test Design
“To make sense of what people do, one must share their society or form of life. Therefore machines ought to be the strangest of strangers.”
― The Shape of Actions: What Humans and Machines Can Do
― The Shape of Actions: What Humans and Machines Can Do
“We show that the boundary between humans and machines is permeable at least insofar as humans often find reason for acting in machinelike fashion. We explore the possibility of shifts in the position of the boundary between humans and machines: If humans changed the ways they acted, they could make the very boundary between themselves and machines disappear.”
― The Shape of Actions: What Humans and Machines Can Do
― The Shape of Actions: What Humans and Machines Can Do
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