Category: Opinion
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Start with the risks, not the method
In this post I set out how looking at risks before approaches can improve your test approaches.
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Quality job titles matter… because they say something to other people
Job titles in the testing and quality community serve as essential marketing tools, helping us to tell others what we can do. In this blog post I’ll talk about my ideas for why job titles matter to us as quality professionals.
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Testers have to be the ones to advocate for quality
There’s a prevailing commentary that quality professionals not only are the only ones thinking about quality but also need to fight for a seat at the table to discuss these things. Testers need to be the ones advocating for quality because we’re the ONLY ONES WHO CAN.
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A lack of standard (testing) terms hurts us all
A lack of standardized terminology in the testing industry complicates communication among testers, hiring managers, and other engineers. This discrepancy can lead to misunderstandings, inefficiencies in onboarding, and reduced credibility. In this post I talk about how a lack of standard terms can hurt us and how we can mitigate that pain.
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Slow burn – Changing things takes time
One of the things that we’re not always taught, so can be under prepared for, is how speed of change and measurable impact of your work becomes slower at more senior levels. How do we reconcile that and also explain that to our managers? As a quality coach embedding into a new organisation, here are…
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Being a good senior tester means having an opinion
More than just measuring and sitting apart from the actual “goodness” of your product, a senior tester should be opinionated. Having and expressing opinions is crucial. They influence testing strategies, help your stakeholders to understand quality and demonstrate your influence.
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Testers – Don’t wait to be asked
The whole point of being a tester is the ability to not only find but share information to teams. In this post I discuss how it’s not enough to do the testing, we have to share information about it too.
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Is Agile Testing a Dirty Word?
I’ve been a part of a few conversations of late asking “why do we say agile tester?” Or saying that agile testing is a fantasy title used to impress people. So has agile testing (like manual testing) become a dirty word for people?
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Is Manual Testing a Dirty Word?
I’ve been part of a few discussions this week, including on LinkedIn, about the term manual testing. Generally within the community, it appears that there’s a negative connotation around the term and I wanted to find out why.
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We Need to Talk More
Testing is all about finding out information to share with people, so that they can be informed about quality and make decisions based off of that. This means one of the biggest skills in testing is the ability to speak up and communicate to teams.