Category: Quality Engineering
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Getting into quality engineering: Bookend development
Moving into quality engineering means being more involved with development and engineering practices; something that can be very overwhelming and daunting to get started with. So where do we start as testers moving into this space? By bookending development (coding) and being a part of the start and finish of things.
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Building (and losing) credibility as a quality coach
Working as a quality coach or a senior tester is an interesting role, the role may not come with in built authority and so you live and die by the influence you cultivate.
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Outside-in: Using your ACs to drive unit tests
We can fall into the anti pattern of adding unit tests that test the implementation, not business asks, which could mean codifying the wrong behaviour into tests. So what do we do?
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Setting up Testing at an Engineering Org
Engineering organizations face unique challenges when setting up testing due to their dynamic and technical nature. In this post I discuss some of the challenges I’ve seen and propose some of the elements needed for your testing strategy in these organisations.
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Why you really need Automated tests
The market isn’t wrong, you really do need automation, but maybe not for the reasons you’d think. We often talk about needing or types automation and how it helps speed, but not why we really need it. In this post I’ll offer a beginners guide to why automation is needed and helps us.
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Understanding the things we Need to test
When designing a strategy or approach for testing it’s easiest to start by looking at what it is we have to test. By this I don’t mean the product and features but the common things under test. In this post I discuss what those common things are that we need to test.
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Testing Doesn’t Just Happen at the End
In this post I say that testing isn’t a phase, it’s something that happens everywhere in your delivery.
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Career Progression in Testing: The Awesome Power of Influence
Within testing there’s no really defined career path beyond what the market sets for us. The market values SDIT and automation? Then people assume that’s the route for progression. But other than changing tools and techniques, how do we really progress as testers? Influence.
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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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An Introduction to Chaos Engineering for Testers
In this post I describe how I ask what happens if this fails, throttling networks and killing pods to find out how a system actually recovers.