Category: Opinion
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Test scripts matter
Is the output of testing just “working apps” or can the outputs of testing be more? In this post I explore how your test artefacts are as important as test results.
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Tester Imposter Syndrome
As a tester there’s a number of stresses that can come from our career that can lead to feelings of being an imposter. These can be made worse when working remotely and not being able to talk about them.
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Testing Horror Stories
As spooky season draws in and we’re beset by the things that go bump in the night it’s time to discuss our testing horror stories. Gather round children and listen to these tales of terror as you quake in fear.
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Getting Started with Writing an Article or Blog Post
This post, originally a Racket conversation with Simon Tomes, talks about how we get out there and write content. How do we come up with content, how do we get started and why does writing content matter? This post talks to all of these topics.
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Speaking Up in Meetings – an Awesome Power
Recently I’ve been working with a number of teams where we’re having a lot of Zoom conversations to try and understand what it is that we’re trying to do / build. One of the big things that I am finding is that people just need a bit of encouragement to talk up and to speak…
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Introducing Ramone our Testing Mascot!
All over my Twitter and blogs you’ll see mention of Ramone the Testing Otter™️. But who is that? What’s that all about? In this post I introduce Ramone as my testing mascot and why I’ve come to use him.
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Resident Evil: When in house practices make things worse
As we reach the spooky season I thought I’d muse upon a horror story in software development; our in house practices are making things worse. I’ve grown to shudder when I hear the words “we’ve always done it like this” as it signals a non optimal situation that we’ve accepted and that we don’t want…
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Do we all need to become SDITs?
Across the industry of software development we’ve seen a shift towards companies asking for SDIT / SDETs in their teams instead of traditional testers. So do all modern testers need to become SDITs?
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A Starving Man Cannot Learn to Fish…
There’s a common saying “Give a man a fish, he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he’ll feed himself for a lifetime.” This week my Product Owner told me “But a starving person isn’t in the position to learn how to fish. You have to feed them before he can be…