I assume you haven’t read Watkins’ book.

It seems as though I have written a reverse psychology review that will cause you to rush out and buy it, instead of the far far better Lisa and Janet book.

When you do, read Watkins’ book you will see that the “Miracle QA” quote is Watkins’ and he does not apply it to anyone in the book. He applies it to people, and I try to make this clear in the review but must have failed, who invent their own test approach as the circumstances change based on a consistent understanding of how they test, again using Watkins’ words. Since I see the good testers I know actually doing this, and yes I do think I do this too, I consider this normal, not miraculous.

Do you really consider this description of a tester miraculous?

Just to clarify, I would never describe myself as a QA person. I describe myself as a tester.

I re-read the review and I’m pretty sure I did not describe any contributor to the book as a “lesser-being”. I know some of the contributors and, those I know I also respect and have discussed the book perfectly pleasantly with them.

Best of luck reading the book. Although I think “mere mortal testers” will gain much more from reading Lisa and Janet’s book – I know I did – and that was the main point of the review, the rest was to provide some justification for that statement.

I guess my review wasn’t written well enough to communicate these points fully, so thank you for the feedback.

I appreciate that my writing style may come across with an absence of humility, and I don’t mind that. So even if the tone of this comment doesn’t sound like it, I really do appreciate you writing the comment. All comments help me look back at what I’ve written and ask myself “was I too hard?”, “do I still stand by what I have written?”.

And I still agree with my reading of the review. I will live with the fact that I haven’t communicated as well as I had hoped to, so I’ll try to make my closing statement clear.

I gained much more benefit from studying Lisa and Janet’s book. I think everyone else will too.

Thanks,