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 […]
Tag: Learning
CrowdStrike: The Blame Game
So, another huge IT outage occurred. This time, involving CrowdStrike. It seems like everyone and their pet tortoise has an opinion on this, so I didn’t jump in immediately. Here are some things I haven’t personally seen mentioned. Where’s Your DevOps Now? Remember when DevOps was this shiny, new thing that […]
5 Years in Testing: Then and Now
“Who knows what that’ll be next year, but if it’s anything like this one, it’ll be good.” Hmm. I think we all had a hard time predicting how 2020 would turn out. While I count myself lucky that it wasn’t exactly bad for me, personally, it certainly didn’t turn out the way I […]
4 Years in Testing: Then and Now
It’s strange to think that I’ve been professionally testing for four years already. Time seems to fly by so quickly, and it’s time again to reflect on what’s happened in the last year. Balance and Priorities As ever, I’m still working on how to strike the right balance between all the […]
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 […]