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Software Testing Strategies
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Our friend, Damian Synadinos, does a series of talks titled “wordsmatter,” with no space between words and matter. We can see the different meanings. Jerry Weinberg, our mentor, was fond of the example of the term “Mary had a little lamb;” by changing the key focus word, we could change the meaning.
“MARY had a little lamb” – as opposed to someone else, who does not.
“Mary HAD a little lamb” – this is past tense. What happened to it, is it missing or dead?
“Mary had a LITTLE lamb” – did she eat it? Why was it small? Was it smaller than the ones the other children had?
“Marry had a little LAMB” – do the other children have different animals?
Here, we have a five-word sentence that is one of the most common and well-known in the English language, and we have found a half-dozen different possible subtexts, or underlying themes, for the words. Our writing...