---
title: "Testing nirvana"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/26/testing-nirvana.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/26/testing-nirvana.html"
published: "2003-09-26T06:13:00"
updated: "2003-09-26T06:13:00"
tags: [".Net Quotations"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Josh Ledgard Has been writing some very interesting posts. He's a testing team at MS and as such, writes posts about testing with an understating and knowledge that only someone who did testing on products such as…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Testing nirvana

By Roy Osherove September 26, 2003 In [.Net Quotations](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-quotations)

**Historical article** · Originally published September 26, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

[Josh Ledgard](http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/jledgard/) Has been writing some very interesting posts. He's a testing team at MS and as such, writes posts about testing with an understating and knowledge that only someone who did testing on products such as Office and Windows can have. [His latest post](http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/jledgard/permalink.aspx/9bdff4bb-ae75-430f-8c46-a3b62458b930) talks about a [cool book he read about testing,](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684852861/iserializable-20) and some of the basic stuff you need to have in order to be a successful tester. Subscribed!

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
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- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
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