When starting on a new project, it’s very common for me to be the first and / or only tester. I find myself frequently wanting to document the same things, rewriting them from scratch. To help with this, I’ve decided to include some of this documentation on my own blog, so I no longer […]
Tag: Exploratory Testing
There Is No “Manual vs Automated Testing” Conflict
I’m a little bit frustrated. Since Twitter died and I decided to start engaging on LinkedIn more, I keep seeing posts that perpetuate this idea of “manual” vs automated testing; us vs them. There is no versus. Your civil war is manufactured. There’s room for everyone and we all want the same thing: […]
The Five “I”s of Great Testing
What makes a great tester? A few discussions I’ve seen lately have gotten me thinking about this: What do testers do? How does an ISTQB-following tester compare to an “Agile” or “modern” tester? Is it a tester’s job to decide the severity and / or priority of a bug? Why do people use […]
Why Testers Need to Provide Insight
Originally posted on the CrossBrowserTesting blog in 2017. Before becoming a tester, I worked in IT recruitment. I recruited for a variety of roles, ranging from Marketing Analyst to Category Manager to Head of Analytics. Time and time again, hiring managers would tell me they were looking for one key thing from candidates: […]
Beyond Bugs: Testing IRL Part 4
This is part four (the final part) 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 […]