A good tester is a good communicator. I will die on this hill.
The big problems in tech often have nothing to do with tech, but with communication. Better git gud at it!
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Testit Conference Recap
What was it like giving two talks in one day? Plus answering the most common questions!
Series: Recovery in software development is lacking – Maximum Recoverable Volume (MRV)
In this post I’ll take a look what we can learn from the concept of MRV in strength sports when we apply it to software development. The theory from MRV can be found in the book “The Scientific Principles of Strength Training” and this is the source I’ll
Series: Recovery in software development is lacking - Intro
If you do any type of sport you probably know a bit about the concept of recovery. To give an extremely simple explanation of recovery in sport in case you don’t know what it is: it’s what you do in between training sessions to feel ready to train
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
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
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