CALLUM AKEHURST-RYAN
Software Tester | Conference Speaker | Dungeon Master
Latest posts
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Why I’m talking to Developers about Exploratory Testing
Listening at conferences, reading through articles detailing how large companies like Facebook have no testers and seeing job specs asking for automation and coding skills only you’d almost think that manual testing is dead; but it’s definitely alive and kicking. Manual testing has shifted from confirmation of behaviour being right or wrong to the investigation […]
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Selling Testing into a Project
Half of the battle in testing isn’t how we test, it’s selling the idea that we should test in the first place. As testers we need to be able to advocate for quality and why we need to be testing in projects.
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In testing context is important
In this post I discuss how good doesn’t always mean perfect and how context should be used as a tester to determine good enough.
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I Got it Wrong – Did the How not the What
But recently I fell fowl of the very thing I talk about; when writing a new test approach I got too focused on the how and couldn’t see the what.
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