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My hope for Testing in 2018… | Steve Watson – Musings of a Test Manager

January 3, 2018January 3, 2018 Testing

Little Black Book Steve Watson has some thoughts about where the Testing Community should be concentrating its efforts in 2018: It’s the 1st of January 2018, and at 3pm the rain and grey skies have

What are testers?

July 17, 2017November 13, 2017 Geekery, Testing qa, testing

I'm often asked what I do for a living, and when I tell them I am a software tester I do wonder if they think it is an easy job that any idiot can do.

I can count up to 8!

March 14, 2017November 13, 2017 Geekery, Testing charts, performance, statistics

I really liked this article about performance metrics. These kind of charts can be used to justify just about anything, and there are plenty of managers that spend so much of their time measuring rather

How I interview Testers… – Dan Ashby

April 20, 2016November 13, 2017 Testing hiring, testing

This blog post is related to an excellent webinar by Dan Ashby for the Ministry of Testing. Want to hire great testers? Have a read of this. I’ve been conducting a lot of interviews recently

Mapping biases

January 18, 2016November 13, 2017 Blogging the year 2016, Testing biases, perspective, testing

One of my favourite aspects of systems thinking was the consideration of thinking traps. It brings into play all kinds of problems with the way that humans consider information, and why we often grab the

Using Selenium

January 15, 2016November 13, 2017 Blogging the year 2016, Testing automation, selenium, testing, webdriver

There's an increasing need to use automation to assist with our testing. We are about to launch into developing a huge, new system that interacts with all sorts of existing systems. This is an off-the-shelf

Rosie needs your help

January 13, 2016November 13, 2017 Blogging the year 2016, Testing testing

flickr photo shared by rutty under a Creative Commons ( BY-NC-SA ) license I am a tester. I test software for a living, but I inevitably can't help but test just about everything that comes

We have Jira. Now what?

January 12, 2016November 13, 2017 Blogging the year 2016, Testing alm, jira

We have Jira at work, and HP ALM. I quite like the former while utterly detesting the latter. We have quite a few, varied projects and our developers prefer Jira for their task management &

#NottsTest – January 2016

January 7, 2016November 13, 2017 Blogging the year 2016, Testing nottstest, testing

I have been going to the monthly #NottsTest meetups for a number of years, and they are always informative. We meet on the first Wednesday of each month - usually at the amazing Capital One

What motivates you?

November 19, 2015November 13, 2017 General Chunterings, Testing dan pink, motivation, youtube

I've been attending the Nottingham Agile meetups over the last year. They've all been excellent, with loads of good presentations aimed at making us better software developers. Last night's meetup was about Scrum Masters (and

LeadingAnswers: Leadership and Agile Project Management Blog: Big Agile, the Route Less Travelled

January 23, 2015January 23, 2015 Testing agile, testing

Agile methods have been found to be extremely effective when used correctly. A reasonable reaction to witnessing any great performance in an organization is to demand more of it. So a tremendous amount of time,

Complexity

January 7, 2011November 23, 2017 2011 Year In Pictures, Photos and stuff, Testing 2011yip, magazine, testing

Complexity, originally uploaded by rutty. 7/365 I'm a software tester. I didn't realise this until about seven or eight years into my testing career - my role was a bit of a hybrid of

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