I have recently read Dear Evil Tester by Alan Richardson. While reading it I had many moments of snorting with laughter. Luckily no one was around while I was drinking my tea! I personally found it a very uplifting read and it helped provide a new viewpoint. At times, for…

I’m a big fan of design thinking because innovation is at the heart of this approach. It goes through stages of empathizing with your stakeholders, defining your problem, ideate, prototype and test. I often ask these questions in projects — why are we building a product? Who for? How are…

I had a go just now at recording a Testing Session using Screencastify and it didn’t save the recording. :-( A bit of a shame, however, I thought to write up a few points from what I was saying out loud to record my work. My task was to explore…

In my early career I thought that my role was to break things. A developer would pass some software over to me and my mission was to find as many bugs as possible quickly, then send it back over to them to fix. I remember a developer saying once to…

At the start of this year I came across a concept of a Vision board. The idea behind it was to create a visual representation of what direction you want to go in aspects of your life. I do enjoy an experiment, so I decided to give it a go…

I observe this topic of conversation surfacing from time to time trying to define quality. A lot of views I see I completely respect, however, disagree with. One of them is “quality is hard to define”. Of course it is when you’re talking in generic terms and not comparing two…

In my workplace I have been building out a Test Strategy for a program. It has involved gathering knowledge by asking the Question “what else do I need to know?” I have covered people (stakeholders/customers), product, project and quality attributes. Alongside this I have been asked to speak at an…

Exploratory testing might be explained as an approach to software testing that involves learning, test design and execution. I’ve always attributed this approach to learning directly about the product, however lately my thoughts turn to the bigger picture of learning. You need to learn about the things that might influence…

Definition of Pragmatic — A word that I have been using this week is pragmatic which is defined as, dealing with things sensibly and realistically in a way that is based on practical rather than theoretical considerations. Say for example, you join a new project and you have lots of ideas on what you…