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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
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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
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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
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The 5th Myth of Software Testing – Zero-defect software is achievable
Saving the best until last. No, no, with a side of no. 100% defect-free software is impossible (obviously within the context of the complexity/desired outcome/quality goal scale) Any defect policy… Read more
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The art of critical thinking
Introduction Any team that follows an agile approach is probably cross-functional. If you’re lucky, you will work alongside developers, business analysts and UX specialists. They are specialists in their own… Read more
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The 1st Myth of Software Testing – Anyone can test
How hard can it be? If you spend long enough in, or around, an ‘average’ organisation that develops software then these may resonate with you. I would be very surprised if… Read more
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The 4th Myth of Software Testing – You don’t need QA specialists
QA specialists aren’t needed, developers can do the testing just fine There seems to be a trend in the dev-ops-new-kid-on-the-block-whizz-bang-automate-everything-framework that a lot of organisations are adopting in that a dedicated… Read more
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The 3rd Myth of Software Testing – Testers are responsible for the quality of the delivered product
Notwithstanding that very few organisations ever internally define their expectations of quality, even in the brave new world of Agile and DevOps the ‘Testers are responsible for quality‘ axiom seems… Read more
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The 2nd Myth of Software Testing – Testing == Automation == Quality
Testing == Automation == Quality The obvious response to this is to reply with: ‘What exactly do you mean by automation?’ Pretty soon and no doubt after some debate, you might… Read more
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21st Century Soft Skills – QA Edition – Part 2 – Redux
Introduction This is part 2 of of the soft skills I think enhances by a modern tester continuing on from part 1 here What are soft skills? According to Wikipedia,… Read more
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