One day during a team meeting at Joep‘s previous job at a bank the Team Manager of Testing, listed a number of topics his testers could work on in the coming months. One of those topics was “testing maturity”. This topic was on the list not because this manager was such a fan of maturity […]
So, last year I blogged about an approach I take to managing uncertainty: Put a Ring on It.The post was inspired by a conversation I’d had with several colleagues in a short space of time, where I’d described my mental model of a band I put around all …
I’ve written before about the links I see between joking and testing – about the setting up of assumptions, the reframing, and the violated expectations, amongst other things. I like to listen to the The Comedian’s Comedian podcast because it encourage…
Have you ever wanted to learn a little bit about Selenium WebDriver but didn’t know where to start? Turns out there are some good tips / tutorials online for practicing writing Selenium in Ruby. One of those is a newsletter called Elemental Selenium that has something like 70 tips. You can sign up for the […]
This month’s Lean Coffee was hosted by Redgate. Here’s some brief, aggregated comments and questions on topics covered by the group I was in.Why ‘test’ rather than ‘prove’?The questioner had been asked by a developer why he wasn’t …
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