My testing manifesto to quieten down a bazillion ideas in my head

Building successful teams (QA or otherwise) can seem like a daunting task. It doesn't have to be that way.

Introduction There's a lot written about the benefits of *automated testing. There's a lot of money to be made by tool vendors. There's...

Quality coaching. What I think good looks like, and why, the structure of a session

You mentor because you have life experience that could be of use to someone else.

Introduction As someone actively looking for a position I’m becoming increasingly discouraged by job specifications that appear to have...

Pragmatic continuous improvement ideas

Teams don’t just ‘happen’, they take time and effort

What's the problem? Technology moves at a fair old pace these days. Organisations are overflowing with technical experts promoting the...

Saving the best until last. No, no, with a side of no. 100% defect-free software is impossible (obviously within the context of the...

Introduction Any team that follows an agile approach is probably cross-functional. If you’re lucky, you will work alongside developers,...

How hard can it be? If you spend long enough in, or around, an ‘average’ organisation that develops software then these may resonate with...

QA specialists aren’t needed, developers can do the testing just fine There seems to be a trend in the dev-ops-new-kid-on-the-block-whizz...

Notwithstanding that very few organisations ever internally define their expectations of quality, even in the brave new world of Agile...

Testing == Automation == Quality The obvious response to this is to reply with: ‘What exactly do you mean by automation?' Pretty soon and...

I heavily promote the understanding of soft skills from a QA perspective as I think they are massively under-rated.