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 [...]
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 [...]
Captcha is a method of security for a website, usually found on a registration form or on a login screen when dealing with forgotten passwords, or even on a website's "Comments" section. It's used to prevent malicious automated software from spamming the website and being able to perform the registration process and is also used [...]
It’s amazing how one person's interpretation of a bug can differ so much from another person's interpretation of the same defect. It's all down to perspective. Of not only all of the individual people involved, but also from the testing objective point of view and also the business point of view. I was recently performing [...]
Recently, while trying to wrap a present (which was in a fairly large box), I hit an unfortunate block... the sheet of wrapping paper that I'd bought was not big enough to be wrapped all the way around the present. It was out by about 4cm, and for all my effort of trying to stretch the [...]
Dan Ashby 