Security testing and a cheesy weekend testing session
Yesterday I did my first weekend testing session. Weekend testing is an event where a group of testers hop onto Skype on […]
Why aren’t there more women in IT?
Some kind of gender diversity in testing debate started on Twitter on the weekend, and it seems to have become a series […]
Using GUI automation as a blink test
I just spent the last 3 days doing the Rapid Software Testing Course run by James Bach. It was an excellent and […]
Test certification advantage
There’s been a lot of talk about tester certification lately. Particularly a lot of argument about why they’re very bad. But I’m […]
Positive reinforcement
“That’s one of the reasons we have testers. A great tester gives programmers immediate feedback on what they did right and what […]
5 Tips to Thwart Testers
If you’re a web developer who does not enjoy seeing bugs assigned to you, you’re in luck – I’m about to reveal […]
Developer maturity model
The other day I was thinking about developers and their attitudes towards testers and came up with this maturity model: Level 1: “We […]
Checklists > scripts
Earlier this year, I started work testing a system that had been developed over about 5 years and there were no documented […]
Performance testing on a budget
If you’re a software tester, sooner or later someone will ask you to be involved in performance testing. If you don’t know […]