Alice and the Cheshire Cat talk ISO 29119

Posted on September 9, 2014 by Tim Hall

Mike Talks goes down the ISO29119 rabbit-hole and explains the likely outcome of IS29119 with Alice and the Cheshire Cat.

Alice took a quizzical look at the Cheshire Cat, “so you’re a tester? But you’re a cat!”.

“Oh,” the Cheshire Cat beamed, his almost rictus grin fixed permanently and inflexibly across his face, “in your world that might be a problem, but not in this one. Did you have a better candidate in mind? Would YOU want to sit in a meeting with the Mad Hatter, changing his seat every few minutes, or tell the Queen of Hearts that the project might have to be delayed?” He purred a very self-satisfied purr to himself. “No … I think you’ll find in reality, or as close as it gets in this place, I’m the perfect person for the job.”

I’m not going to spoil it by giving away the punchline; go and read the whole thing!

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2 Responses to Alice and the Cheshire Cat talk ISO 29119

  1. John P. says:
    September 10, 2014 at 10:18 pm

    THAT hits the nail, squarely and precisely, on the head. Nice.

  2. Michael says:
    September 21, 2014 at 2:04 pm

    I concur, and the strange thing is I think the Queen of Hearts might too.

    It’s just that she has an image to maintain when standing in front of a load of shareholders who don’t really know anything about IT development except that it is expensive and gets even more expensive when it goes wrong. They need to be reassured that the company does have its software development under control. Such reassurance does not have to be true or even logical, just convincing.