Why is this blog called The Lazy Tester? In the world of computers, laziness is a good thing. It’s often said that the best programmers are lazy programmers. This is not because lazy programmers are trying to do less work, but because they are trying to work more efficiently. The same can be true for software testers. Why do more work than you have to? If you can test more in less time, why not do it? If you can get a tool to do your work for you, why not use it?

As this implies, a large focus of this blog is automated testing and other testing tools. But it also discusses other parts of testing practice. If you don’t know the basic manual practice of testing, no tool in the world is going to make you a good tester. Everything posted here is meant to make you a more effective tester, and to make testing more interesting and rewarding.