Using Heuristics to Cook
September 30, 2007 Cooking, Testing 2 CommentsI like cooking. It’s one of my passions. I also like software testing. It too is a passion of mine. While cooking one night I noticed that I was using things that resembled heuristics I use in testing. I don’t usually use a recipe to cook - whatever is in the fridge will do. I just “go with it”. The results are usually pretty good. Some disasters have ensued - but not enough to make me follow a recipe. The creativity in doing this really gets me pumped. I experience some sort of flow or zone when putting ingredients together – taste a bit of this, add a bit of that, stir, taste again, repeat. While testing I experience similar feelings.