June 17, 2020December 27, 2022Random musings Let your voice be heard Recently I started singing lessons again with a new teacher, after a couple of years’ hiatus. I love singing – I’ve been […]
April 25, 2019December 27, 2022Random musings, Training Learning testing is like learning to paint One of my “aha” moments with painting was when I took a gouache class and thought oh this technique is so easy […]
January 19, 2017December 27, 2022Random musings Could future developers be testers? I was watching an interesting talk about how the Pinterest engineering team has created an abstraction layer to control views at a […]
February 6, 2015December 27, 2022Random musings How I became a programmer And now for something completely different. Head on over to Medium to read my short tale of how I became a programmer. […]
December 16, 2013December 27, 2022Random musings 750 Tweets So this was fun. While spending a rather hungover Sunday afternoon following Silicon Christmas, immobile on the couch and learning about Angular.js, […]
May 1, 2013December 27, 2022Community, Random musings One simple suggestion to encourage more women into IT Last week I wrote a blog post about a conversation I had with a young girl about women who work in technology. […]
April 26, 2013December 27, 2022Random musings I knew exactly how she felt I went to a Women in IT event last night at Google Campus London designed to connect professional women in the IT […]
April 24, 2013December 27, 2022Community, News, Random musings Testing Positive I gave a talk at the Sydney Testers Meetup last year called something very New-Age-sounding like “The Power of Positive Testing”. It […]
October 9, 2012December 27, 2022Manual testing, Random musings A lesson in exploratory testing Okay, I think I finally get it. I’ve been looking at exploratory testing all wrong. I was trying to break down exploratory […]
February 20, 2012December 27, 2022Community, Random musings The test of cool I remember three things that made me think testing was cool before I was a tester. The first one was when I […]