Welcome to Lesson 2: Testing cannot be automated This is another pet peeve of mine. Why on earth do we talk about test automation as if we can really replicate testing? We don’t talk about programming automation now, do we? To me, people who say “all testing can be automated” have no fucking clue what […]
10 Years in Testing, 10 lessons – Lesson 1
This year marks 10 years in testing for me. I’ve experienced a lot of things in this decade, including a lot of what doesn’t really work well in testing. I want to share these things with you. I’ve condensed them in small blog posts for your convenience. This is just what I have experienced, it […]
On the loss of passion…
Something strange has been happening to me over the last 1,5 year or so. I’ve lost interest and passion for things that I had been doing for a long time. I made a huge decision in June this year. I quit playing my clarinet in an orchestra. For more than a year I barely had […]
Do you even lift?
I was 32 years old, working an office job and had had trouble with my back for a couple of years already. I tried a lot things: yoga, physical therapist, lots of walking, not being stuck at my desk for too long by taking breaks, working on my posture, you name it. But nothing truly […]
Chain Testing Notes example
I haven’t blogged for ages and my writing feels rusty, but I’m back with a post about testing notes. I posted on Twitter that I shared my testing notes with people at work every day and four colleagues told me that they liked the notes. They liked them because they provided clarity and transparency about […]