I've not blogged about a misconception for a while, so here's a really annoying one to add to the series... FEATURE FILE SCENARIOS ARE NOT TEST CASES!! Sorry for the caps... I hope the picture above can portray my annoyance at this misconception. I don't know where this comes from. Maybe it's the terminology of [...]
In the past 5-6 years I feel I've really stepped up my game with self learning. I began to understand that to advance in my career, I need to take action on my own and learn new things to advance myself. I find this easy to do, purely because of the fact that I love what [...]
BDD is something that I find more and more companies attempting to utilise these days. So with everyone dabbling in writing feature files, I wanted to blog about the differences between Declarative and Imperative writing styles when it comes to writing your scenarios. Whats the difference? This is sometimes difficult to explain, but I usually like [...]
There has been lots of discussions about "failing fast" and how it's really good and we should all be aiming for this, but I think this is stemming a massive misconception... But I'm going to try to keep this post quite short. If we fail, then yes, I think failing fast is a pretty good idea. It [...]
I hear this all the time. Even from very senior people. The latest one was from a development manager, asking why we "still need to have testers testing the software, since we are aiming for 100% automating for everything"... Firstly, the truth is very simple: YOU CAN ONLY AUTOMATE WHAT YOU KNOW AND EXPECT. When we [...]
Today, I read an interesting quote today from one of Bob Marshall's blog posts that really got my brain cogs working... “The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.” [...]
We posted a new podcast episode up a few days ago: "Testing In the Pub Episode 11 – Hiring and Recruitment – Part 1" In this 2 part chat, me and Steve got talking about hiring and recruitment in the testing world. We speak about our experiences with looking for the right person, interviews (from [...]
You can't assure quality... In fact, I'd even go as far as to say that testing itself doesn't actually improve quality, let alone assure it. Testing provides information which allows for the improvement of quality only if acted upon by the stakeholders, and then worked on by developers, but testers themselves don't actually do the [...]
The next episode of Testing In The Pub has been released. This time we hit the beer garden over on the canal at Little Venice, near Paddington. In this episode we interviewed the one and only Tony Bruce. Tony is the organiser of the monthly London Tester Gathering meet-up group as well as the Black [...]
This is a big misconception that usually comes from other members of the project team not understanding what testers do. The fact is that some people don't really know what testers do. And I believe a huge part of a tester's job should be to be vocal about what they actually do. Running through a [...]
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