April 20, 2015December 27, 2022Test Management, Tools Good reads Some books I’ve read that I found useful in my career and my life. The Logic of Failure: Recognizing And Avoiding Error […]
November 18, 2013December 27, 2022News, Test approach, Tools Becoming a testing craftsman I recently came back from teaching a day-long workshop at the Eurostar Conference in Gothenburg. My wonderful co-host Jim Holmes and I […]
September 19, 2012December 27, 2022Automation, Manual testing, Tools Using Ruby and Automator to partially automate your exploratory testing on OSX Some time ago I talked about linking automated scripts to keyboard shortcuts to generate test data on the fly. Since then, I’ve […]
April 23, 2012December 27, 2022Automation, Manual testing, Test approach, Tools Eliminate boring testing: Automating visual comparison Recently I found myself in a familiar testing situation – a developer had made a change to a feature that required testing […]
April 17, 2012December 27, 2022Reporting, Tools One useful robot Last year, I was feeling a bit overwhelmed by having to track multiple streams of information all day long. Luckily, I was […]
August 21, 2011December 27, 2022Random musings, Tools Thoughts on using mind maps I’ve heard that people can identify with either visual, auditory or tactile methods of learning, or some combination of the three. This […]
March 18, 2011December 27, 2022Automation, Tools A website appears before you! Adventures of a clicky thing I’d had this idea in my head for a while to create an automated script that would take any web application and […]
December 7, 2010December 27, 2022Automation, Manual testing, Tools Go faster! Linking data generation to hotkeys Sometimes testing is like pouring a bucket of confetti on a snow leopard. Have you ever tried pouring a bucket of confetti […]
November 23, 2010December 27, 2022Automation, Test cases, Tools Automating in Gherkin syntax with Specflow I’m quite a fan of Gherkin’s Given-When-Then syntax for test cases, so I was pleased to discover Specflow. Specflow is a .NET […]
October 18, 2010December 27, 2022Automation, Manual testing, Test cases, Test Management, Tools Make your tests agile too: wiki This is a story about my experience in using a wiki to manage test cases. Over the past few years, I have […]