Search
Graham
- Jun 26, 2020
- 7 min
Building a QA team - Part 1
Building successful teams (QA or otherwise) can seem like a daunting task. It doesn't have to be that way.
384 views0 comments
Graham
- May 6, 2020
- 3 min
Automated testing - not all scripts and unicorns
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...
215 views0 comments
Graham
- 2 days ago
- 3 min
When I hear 'I've tested before'
Introduction I believe that every single person on a team can test. I articulate that here: Anyone can test and here: You don't need QA...
2 views0 comments
Graham
- 7 days ago
- 11 min
Agile gotcha's - The event version
Introduction Agile, just the word alone, with 0 context, appears to polarise opinions within software development circles. The way that...
28 views0 comments
Graham
- Aug 26, 2020
- 10 min
Mentoring & Coaching - Finding your outer Miyagi
Quality coaching. What I think good looks like, and why, the structure of a session
87 views0 comments
Graham
- Jul 30, 2020
- 9 min
Mentoring & Coaching - Finding your inner Miyagi
You mentor because you have life experience that could be of use to someone else.
134 views0 comments
Graham
- Jul 14, 2020
- 4 min
When Job Specs Go Bad
Introduction As someone actively looking for a position I’m becoming increasingly discouraged by job specifications that appear to have...
77 views0 comments
Graham
- Jul 2, 2020
- 9 min
Building a QA team - Part 3
Pragmatic continuous improvement ideas
115 views0 comments
Graham
- Jun 29, 2020
- 10 min
Building a QA team - Part 2
Teams don’t just ‘happen’, they take time and effort
516 views0 comments
Graham
- May 12, 2020
- 3 min
21st Century Soft Skills - QA Edition - Part 1 - Redux
What's the problem? Technology moves at a fair old pace these days. Organisations are overflowing with technical experts promoting the...
93 views0 comments
Graham
- Apr 20, 2020
- 3 min
The 5th Myth of Software Testing - Zero-defect software is achievable
Saving the best until last. No, no, with a side of no. 100% defect-free software is impossible (obviously within the context of the...
59 views0 comments
Graham
- Apr 14, 2020
- 6 min
The art of critical thinking
Introduction Any team that follows an agile approach is probably cross-functional. If you’re lucky, you will work alongside developers,...
108 views0 comments
Graham
- Mar 24, 2019
- 3 min
The 1st Myth of Software Testing - Anyone can test
How hard can it be? If you spend long enough in, or around, an ‘average’ organisation that develops software then these may resonate with...
210 views0 comments
Graham
- Nov 16, 2018
- 3 min
The 4th Myth of Software Testing - You don't need QA specialists
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...
87 views0 comments
Graham
- Oct 1, 2018
- 3 min
The 3rd Myth of Software Testing - Testers are responsible for the quality of the delivered product
Notwithstanding that very few organisations ever internally define their expectations of quality, even in the brave new world of Agile...
52 views0 comments
Graham
- Sep 21, 2018
- 3 min
The 2nd Myth of Software Testing - Testing == Automation == Quality
Testing == Automation == Quality The obvious response to this is to reply with: ‘What exactly do you mean by automation?' Pretty soon and...
83 views0 comments
Graham
- Jul 19, 2018
- 3 min
21st Century Soft Skills - QA Edition - Part 2 - Redux
I heavily promote the understanding of soft skills from a QA perspective as I think they are massively under-rated.
21 views0 comments
©2019 by GESQA Ltd.