Category: Testing Skills
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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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Using AI to help teams shift testing left
Teams are leveraging AI to enhance testing processes, improve quality, and boost engineering velocity through user story evaluations.
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You don’t need so many E2E tests (or do you?)
We’ve all seen the testing pyramid, a diagram that shows us that proportionally we should reduce the amount our larger tests in favour of smaller ones. Yet we see so many teams still relying primarily on larger end to end tests, why is that? More importantly, is that a problem?
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Is it really an edge case?
It’s a tale as old as time, as testers we raise a risk or a bug only to be told “that’s an edge case so it won’t be taken into account”. But is that really true, what’s an edge case and should we care?
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Not having an Approach causes Problems in Your Testing
We all know what a test approach is, it’s that document that we write to say what we’re going to test. For some testers it’s seen as boilerplate or a waste of time, but I’m here to tell you that not having one can cause problems in your testing.
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14 Ways testers can be technical without writing code
We can sometimes forget that technical skills in testing isn’t just about automation. In this post I’m going to highlight some of the testers can develop technical skills beyond coding. Skills that you probably already have.
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A Beginners Guide to API Testing
I’ve had some chats to some awesome testers recently and the topic of wanting to “be more technical” has come up. This resonated with me as I’ve been through that journey before and one of the first things that helped me was someone showing me how to test an API. Don’t worry, it’s actually not…
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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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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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Technical Exploratory Testing – Using Dev Tools
One of the best things that I’ve learnt to improve my exploration, and make it more technical, has been to use the dev tools to “look under the hood” and see API traffic between the front and back end.