I found myself watching an episode of Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA the other night. As expected, it was not going very well and Gordon seemed to be getting more and more frustrated with one of the Chefs. Something had to give, but my heart sank when Gordon held up an apple and asked the question ‘What is this?’ Now I have come to respect Gordon’s approach to project recovery; he’s straight talking and gets results. Eventually the answer came, ‘it’s an apple Gordon’. Oh dear, maybe he’s just been working too hard.

Clearly the wrong answer! Gordon seemed to get quite upset. Apparently it’s not just an apple, it’s a bundle of flavour and inspiration for several dishes. This got me thinking, as testers do we just see test cases, or do we see crit-sits and outages prevented. If it really is just test case xyz, how can we get anyone interested in it?

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