Lesson 5 – Testing alone is dangerous When I started my first assignment as a test consultant I firmly believed in what I was taught: I had my ISTQB certificate, as long as I followed that process my testing would be good and objective.Right? Right??!!! Of course not. I was a lone tester in my […]
10 Years in Testing, 10 lessons – Lesson 4
This one really grinds my gears, so saddle up. Lesson 4: Automated GUI tests don’t mimic what a user does I cannot believe how often I’m having this discussion with fellow testers. Also, this infatuation with GUI automation has got to stop! Some testers like GUI end-to-end automation a little too much and their reasoning […]
10 Years in Testing, 10 lessons – Lesson 3
Hi and welcome to another post about what I’ve learned in a decade in software testing. Today, I will write about something that even some testers don’t seem to realise. Lesson 3: Quality can’t be assured. There are testers out there who are fine with calling themselves QA. I think it stands for Quality Assurance, […]
10 Years in Testing, 10 lessons – Lesson 2
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 […]
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 […]
Watch my talk “Mapping Biases to Testing” for free
I gave my talk about the role of cognitive biases in testing at TestBash Manchester 2018. It’s available for free on the Dojo. Watch it HERE! The description for the talk is: We used to believe in the statement: “testers should be objective”. This translated to separate test teams because letting testers work together with […]