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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So there have been a few people blethering recently about Testing as an Activity. I've been discussing this subject recently with Steve (Janaway), as he has been talking about it on his blog and at conferences: see here, and here.I agree that testing is an activity, in the same way that coding is an activity. [...]
The second part of the Security Testing chat with Dan Billing (@thetestdoctor) has now been posted! Treat your ears with this podcast, where we continue the discussion on Security Testing. And don't miss out on the quick-fire questions! 🙂 Listen to it over on the testing in the pub website, or on iTunes. (Or if [...]
I keep hearing people say that testers are "gatekeepers". Just as much from testers as other project members. For example, last week, I heard a tester say that he was a "gatekeeper of the product release". <facepalm>"Doh!!"</facepalm> The truth is that testing is investigating and questioning the product and its requirements, so that information about [...]
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