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.” [...]
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Dispelling the misconceptions #4 – “Quality Assurance”… You cant assure quality!
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 [...]
Dispelling the misconceptions #2 – “Testing as an activity” does not mean that anyone can test.
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. [...]
Dispelling the misconceptions #1 – Testers are not gatekeepers!!
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 [...]
MVP… What about adding value to that?
So I've been working on a project where the underlying tone of the team is to get the minimal viable product released on time. The idea being that we strip out waste and get the basics in there so that it can be released in a timely manner and then we use that to build [...]
I’m speaking at Agile Testing Days 2014!
And so it's been official for a few days now. I have been accepted to speak at this years Agile Testing Days conference later in November in Potsdam, Berlin. I attended last year and it was such a great conference with lots of amazing people from all over the world. You can read about the [...]
I’m speaking at EuroSTAR in Dublin this November!!
YES!!!!!!!! It's been difficult to keep it to myself these past few weeks since I found out, but now that the EuroSTAR 2014 launch webinar has happened where they announced the line up, I'm able to ecstatically shout from the rooftops that I've managed to make it onto the speakers list! 🙂 The talk I'll [...]
Testing In The Pub podcast 3 is now available – Mobile Testing
Get yourselves over to the Testing In The Pub website and have a listen to the latest podcast session. Me and Steve chat for around 30 minutes about "Mobile Testing". This session covers the following topics relating to Mobile Testing: Tools. Techniques. Fragmentation and selecting devices. What makes mobile testing different. Plus more... Feedback on [...]
Test Techniques? Think About It…
I'm going to keep this post quite short. It's a thought I've been having for a while now. Here goes with the impact statement: Test Techniques are actually just activities that relate to some context of a testing mission. Think about it... Take "load testing", or "accessibility testing", or "function testing", or "security testing", or any of the other 120 different test techniques (which Dan [...]
Testing in the pub podcasts are now here!!
At last! Testing In The Pub has arrived!! Stephen Janaway and myself have been working on bringing you a series of podcasts, where we sit mostly in a pub and chat about testing. We figured that since we did this often anyway, we might as well record our ramblings and let people listen to them! [...]
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