Tag: Testing
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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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Quality Coaching Scenario: No testing happening
In this post I’ll take a hypothetical testing scenario and then set out the thinking I’d take around it to support the organisation as a quality coach. The aim here is to help people to see the thinking that I’d undertake as a way of helping to shape other people’s thinking and provide some materials…
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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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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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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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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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Considering Generative AI in testing
Whether it’s low code test automation tools or using ChatGPT to create software code, Generative AI is the topic of the moment. But what are the risks that we should consider when using genAI and how can we test for them?
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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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Testers as Dungeons and Dragons Classes
What if Dungeons and Dragons classes were testers; what roles and abilities would they have? In this post I put forward the testing classes and how we can use them in our software development adventuring parties.
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