Software Quality Assurance | GESQA Ltd | Wales

No Filter, All Opinion

  • My Testing Manifesto

    Introduction I read. I read an awful lot. I read books, I read other blogs (most of which seem better than my attempts). I read articles on the agile space.… Read more

  • Building a QA team – Part 1

    “Building a team that communicates freely and openly towards a common goal in the pursuit of a quality deliverable will always outperform a collection of disparate individuals with their own… Read more

  • Automated testing – not all scripts and unicorns

    Introduction There’s a lot written about the benefits of *automated testing. There’s a lot of money to be made by tool vendors. There’s not a lot written about the downside… Read more

  • When I hear ‘I’ve tested before’

    Introduction I believe that every single person on a team can test. I articulate that here: Anyone can test and here: You don’t need QA specialists and here: Testers are… Read more

  • Agile gotcha’s – The event version

    Introduction Agile, just the word alone, with 0 context, appears to polarise opinions within software development circles. The way that some commenters opine you’d think it was only second to… Read more

  • Mentoring & Coaching – Finding your outer Miyagi

    Introduction In Part1 here I talked about mentoring. I talked about the fact that it is a function primarily based on building lasting relationships. In this post I’ll talk about… Read more

  • Mentoring & Coaching – Finding your inner Miyagi

    Introduction The line between mentor and coach has always seemed a bit blurry to me.You will mentor because you have life experience that you can pay forward.I would class this… Read more

  • When Job Specs Go Bad

    Introduction As someone actively looking for a position I’m becoming increasingly discouraged by job specifications that appear to have little to no relevance in hiring skilled testers. After reviewing job… Read more

  • Building a QA team – Part 3

    This is part 3 of the ‘Building a QA team’ series. In this series, I’ve explained what I’ve learnt in the creation of a great team, I’ve also explained the… Read more

  • Building a QA team – Part 2

    Introduction In the first part here, I defined the problem to be solved, clarified what I mean by a team and identified the characteristics of individuals I look for in… Read more

  • 21st Century Soft Skills – QA Edition – Part 1 – Redux

    What’s the problem? Technology moves at a fair old pace these days. Organisations are overflowing with technical experts promoting the latest bit of shiny. Organisations are overflowing with teams implementing… Read more