This is part one in a mini-series – Testing in Real Life – that aims to share practical information about testing, based on real life examples. It’s born from the observation that a lot of resources I’ve seen appear to concentrate mostly on theory, or how to advance existing experience, but there’s not a […]
Category: Software Production
Sorry, Troy, HTTPS is NOT Easy!
Bad news, everyone. Troy Hunt lied to us! …Kind of, sort of… Okay, maybe not really. This post is about the difficulties I had when moving my website from HTTP to HTTPS. For anyone who might not know, Troy Hunt is behind a lot of security resources, including haveibeenpwned.com which allows […]
Ideas to Start Testing Without Equipment
This article was originally published in Testing Trapeze, the online testing magazine, in December, 2017. However, this has since ceased publishing and the article is no longer available to read via Testing Trapeze. A few months ago, I was pleased to arrive on-site with a new client as a tester on the project. […]
3 Years in Testing: Then and Now
I’m a little late in publishing this installment of the X Years in Testing series. I’d written another version before Christmas, but I didn’t like it and it felt forced. I’ve never been one to write or talk about things that I don’t really want to, and so I decided not to publish it […]
7 Steps to Create a Test Strategy from Scratch
I recently found myself in the situation of having to create a test strategy completely from scratch, for the “imminent” launch of a web app that I’d never actually seen or been involved in before. Though faced with hurdles and pressured by time, it was a very interesting and enjoyable experience, where I felt […]