Category: Starting in a new Agile team
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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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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.
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Agile 101
This post is meant as a very introductory discussion to Agile development. Let’s talk about some basic concepts in Agile development, what it means and how testing can be involved.
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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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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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5 Tips for Starting a New Role as a Tester
This week I’ve started working in a new role at Adarga as their new Lead Quality Engineer. This will be my first role where I’m not embedded into a team and instead am helping to look at testing and quality strategy across the whole company. Starting a new role can be daunting for sure, but…
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Quality narratives are a better form of reporting
f you’re asked, “How’s dinner, is it good?” Have you ever responded “I am 14% complete with dinner.” No you don’t; because the natural way to respond is with a quality narrative. So why do we do this with test reporting? Let’s look at using quality narratives for our reporting.
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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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Let’s Learn Together – Reposting My Online Talks
In this post I’m linking to all the talks that I’ve made over the last few years that are available to watch online. In these talks I discuss topics such as: exploratory testing, Agile testing, diversity and an introduction to Docker for cloud based testing.
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