New video posted to the media page. Follow this link to download Boundary Testing.

Participants: James Bach and Michael Kelly
Format: Video with audio (mostly audio)
Run time: Just under twenty minutes

Topic:
Boundary testing is often said to be one of the simplest test techniques. You simply find out what the boundaries are, you try to get close to that boundary, and you try to go past that boundary.

In this video we explore the following boundaries in Microsoft Word's bullets and numbering feature: input boundaries, output boundaries, interactions with other boundaries, inner boundaries, and outer boundaries.

While not explicitly used or mentioned in this video, the following may help you with your boundary testing:
- Consistency heuristics
- Perlclip
- Blink testing

Cool new Google tool, Google Trends. In the example below, I looked at trends for software testing:



If you run the trend yourself, at the bottom of the page you'll see normalized data by City, Region, or Language. Be sure to check out the regions where the searches on testing come from. More importantly, note that AST made the list of sample news stories.

It's a fun little tool to play around with. Compare performance testing, security testing, and usability testing...