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 […]
Mapping Biases to Testing – Hypocognition
“What is hypocognition? If you don’t know, you’ve just experienced it.” In my opinion, there is no better way to introduce the concept of hypocognition than the sentence you just read. “Hypocognition, a term introduced to modern behavioral science by anthropologist Robert Levy, means the lack of a linguistic or cognitive representation for an object, […]
Interviewing for new testers – advice from the community
It’s not often that I get to interview potential new tester colleagues so I asked for input from the test community on Twitter to help me out. This is the thread if you want to skip this post, but I’ll also make a more readable list here. Any brilliant no-brainer questions when interviewing for a […]
UX designer for two days
Over the last few years I’ve always worked with UX designers, but I had never tried being one for two days. I had my chance last week when I was part of a “design pressure cooker” with a mission to make our app “simpler” and to enable our users to work together on lists. I […]