By the time the third day came, I was already feeling the haze of "information overload" and had been up late on the previous night socializing with some great testers, such as Daniel Maslyn, Sami Söderblom, Tom Mantsch, Jose Lima, Adam Knight, Chris George, Pete Walen, Huib Schoots, Tony Bruce, Gus Evangelisti and many more [...]
Day 2 started in a bit of a blur, as I was trying to still digest the waft of information that I had gained from day 1... Nonetheless, the second day offered just as much fun, information, knowledge, ideas and socializing as the first day! Here's a summary of day 2: Keynote: “Live it – [...]
A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to be able to attend Agile Testing Days, which was held in Potsdam, Germany. My employers bought 2 tickets to the event and put them up for a competition to the test team and I managed to obtain one along with my colleague Paul Coletti.Although we didn't have tickets [...]
A few weeks ago I attended the very first London Tester Gathering Workshops sessions - a 2 day event hosted by Tony Bruce in partnership with Skills Matter, along with some more of the leading testers in our industry. Initially, I didn't know what to expect of the workshops... I thought that it might be like the usual conference structure, [...]
I've now officially added tea in my top 5 "tools for a tester" list! What's that? You think I'm joking? I'm not.... let me explain. If you think about having tea (or coffee) while at work, we can break it down into 3 areas: Making tea... When [...]
I regularly have some great conversations with other testers and developers that I socialize with, and a few nights ago I met a developer and got absorbed in a conversation with him about agile... Let me tell you how the conversation went. In the beginning, I found myself in agreement with the majority of his [...]
There are many misconceptions in the software industry regarding both Manual Testing and Automated Testing. Some people believe that Automated Testing is the bee’s knees and exists as a replacement for Manual Testing (which is simply not true). And others believe that Manual Testing is a simple set of step-by-step tasks that anyone can run [...]
I'm inspired to write a blog about the benefits of networking in our industry due to the London Tester Gathering (LTG) that takes place every month... I've been attending London's monthly tester meetup for well over a year now and wanted to discuss why I think that networking at events such as this one has [...]
A few months ago, I read a great blog post by Iain McCowatt (@imccowatt) about "Models of Automation". The blog detailed a problem that Iain had witnessed between two of the teams that he was working with regarding automated testing - There was a lack of communication between the two teams and this was down [...]
I recently re-read one of Tony Bruce’s blog posts the other day: “Which do you have? A job or a career?”. The post poses the question about whether you see yourself as someone who has a “just a job” mentality; where you don’t enjoy what you are doing day-to-day, you clock watch, your day seems [...]
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