Keep your mind open when you are testing!
Knowing a bunch of general things, even trivial things, will help you be a better person, a better parent, a better friend, and even a better tester. This is one of the reasons I listen to a number of...
View ArticleLeading By Example
*The following is a guest post by Brendan Connolly, SDET at Agilysys. The opinions stated in this post are his own. Testers, even when embedded on teams, end up being outsiders. Their value is derived...
View ArticleThe Third Online Testing Conference
I Love Testing Conferences! Testing Conferences open your mind to new techniques, you learning about new tools, get to know other testers, and the overall feeling of being part of something bigger...
View ArticleSoft Skills Every Mobile Tester Should Have
The following is a guest post by Daniel Knott, Lead Software Test Engineer at XING’s mobile team and avid blogger www.adventuresinqa.com. (More about the author below) Mobile technology has changed...
View ArticleDon’t Mix Friendship or Politics with Testing
There were times in my testing career when I found myself in a complicated spot as a result of my attempts to be a “good friend”, and in some cases a “team player”. The problem is that when we are...
View Article5 tips when working with distributed testing teams
Editor note: Today, more than ever, our abilities to work remotely are being tested (a.k.a Corona Pandemic) The following is an edited post I previously wrote over a year ago, but it is quite relevant...
View ArticleCoordinating your automated and manual test management
Are you doubling down for no reason? It has long ago come to my attention that some QA teams that have automation in place still run part of their automatic test cases manually. I wondered WHY do they...
View ArticleMindful Testing – because testing should not be done on autopilot
I was asked to do a talk on Mindful testing for Swiss Testing Day. I liked the idea. I have been practicing Mindful Testing personally (and mostly quietly) for the last couple of years, and this gave...
View ArticleThe secrets of successful testing-community projects: OTC and SoT
It’s been a couple of busy weeks… 2 weeks ago we had the Fall 2020 OnlineTestConf Maayan reminded me this was our 9th edition(!) I sincerely had lost count. It was a nice opportunity to appreciate the...
View ArticleThe User Story Value Hypothesis
I’ve been working on a concept for a series of webinars and workshops around Test Process Orchestration and the New Role of the QA Architect. Among the concepts I’ve been developing and covering around...
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