10 years in testing

Let me tell ya, I’ve participated in many workshops over the course of the last 10 years. But there’s one workshop that I will always remember and I’ve told the facilitator many times how valuable this workshop was. He always brushes me off and tells me it

Lesson 8: Read Thinking, Fast and Slow to improve your testing There are many books written about testing and some of them have aged like milk (cough TMap cough). The single most important book I’ve read in my life and the book that has influenced my testing the most

Lesson 7 – Developers are often awesome testers This lesson is really important to me because I’ve seen some really crazy and damaging assumptions from both developers and testers about testing capabilities of developers. There are two stereotypes I have observed. 1. the “testing is owned by testers”-tester: “Only

Hi code coverage lovers, this one is for you. Lesson 6 – Test Coverage doesn’t tell you much. I feel like some people in IT get a little too excited when the topic du jour is test coverage. I have never understood this obsession with numbers that tell you so

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

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