
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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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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Presentation Usability (with Ramone the Testing Otter)
Are you presenting at a conference? Want some tips to make your slides more usable? then Ramone the Testing Otter is here to help you with some thoughts on presentation usability.
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Don’t wait to test – Go explore!
The biggest shift in mindset between traditional testing and modern Agile testing is the drive to investigate, rather than waiting to be told to test.