In software we so often focus on the new, new products, new features, new technology. The thing is we don’t all get to work on the shiny new stuff, many of us spend a good amount of our time maintaining existing, often referred to as legacy products. It might not always be pretty but it … [Read more…]
There’s a term for juggling your work life and personal life, work life balance. It’s hard not to hear about it, companies talk about it all the time, in interviews, in meetings, it’s everywhere and it’s great that it’s being taken seriously. Fantastic, let’s assume then that your job provides a healthy work life balance. … [Read more…]
Imposter syndrome is common in the software industry and it’s not unique to developers. It’s exciting to be in an industry that is evolving and changing so quickly. It’s hard though when you do plug-in and feel the sheer volume of blogs, books, webinars, training, open source projects, the list is never ending. I have … [Read more…]
Black Box, White Box, Gray box throw those words away. Test the thing not the box it came in… That little gem came straight from Janet Gregory during the Testers Role in Agile Requirements Exploration Workshop at CAST 2016. I struggled with choosing what sessions to attend, I didn’t want to miss anything and this … [Read more…]
You may need to compare different development environments before pushing out the update script to production. Maybe you have on premise installations and you need to verify database changes will work as expected across your customer base. In any case you need to be sure that your database is in a state where the rest … [Read more…]
Lately I’ve been getting my feet wet with Session Based Testing. While it’s still fresh and new I wanted to take the timeout to write out my first impressions. Take a look and I’d love to hear other peoples experiences and feedback! It’s Agile There’s this pressure when writing test plans and test cases to … [Read more…]
Over the last few weeks twitter has been on ablaze with controversy, seemingly out of nowhere bombs started dropping all over the Context Driven Testing Community. It all feels a little like being swept up in a tornado and transported to Oz… Lawsuits, Bullying, and Taking Sides, Oh My! It Hurts to See When I … [Read more…]
Code is great, it’s the entire reason testers have jobs. Despite it’s intimate role in our day to day live so many testers have come to have a dysfunctional relationship with it. Why is that? How can it change? Fear Even outside of testing, code is intimidating to many people. According to a National Center … [Read more…]
How often do you hear talk of a testers mindset… You ever wonder what people actually mean when thy say this? I do, every time I hear it I tense up a little and wonder are we all talking about the same thing? The Divine Tester Doesn’t it often have a ring of mysticism when … [Read more…]
Some time ago I read a blog post by Scott Hanselman called Dark Matter Developers: The Unseen 99%. The idea being that the bulk of the developers are people that: They don’t read a lot of blogs, they never write blogs, they don’t go to user groups, they don’t tweet or facebook, and you don’t … [Read more…]