It’s Monday, which means it is Writing Excuses day! Two blurbs to bring to your attention.

One of the interesting things about comics is that there is no real, set format that everyone uses. Every writer uses their own format and style. There is a lot of books that will show scripts that different comic writers use, their style. I’ve settled on a style that I like, but what it really comes down to is: as long as your stage direction and your dialog are clear enough that the rest of the creative team can figure out what is going on the page, that’s really what matters.

Think about this while writing your Test Strategies, Test Plans or even Test Cases. There is no single way to do any of those. Each and every person will have variations that they evolve over the course of their career. The trick to to make that format work with the rest of your team. And that’s actually not that hard of a trick.

You can break the rules once you know them, and you are breaking them on purpose

This one applies not only to a person’s entire career as a tester, but when you are changing organizations as well. Figure out the culture, and the origins of that culture, and then start breaking the rules.

Mercilessly.