Deliberate Practice

Quote by James Clear “Practice is the price you pay today to be better tomorrow.” First, I’ll talk about what I mean by deliberate practice, and then I’ll share ideas […]
Does automation catch bugs?

A few weeks ago, Katja Obring wrote a blog post which I encourage everyone to read. There were quite a few comments – some who agreed and some who did […]
When did PR (pull request) become a stage?

I’ve struggled a long time with what has become common notation – the “PR”. When I first heard it used, I learned that it was a term used in GitHub […]
Implicit/Tacit vs Explicit Knowledge

A couple of things happened last week which made me look at how we share knowledge. The first incident was when I was showing my granddaughter how to make lefsa, […]
Testing from a holistic point of view

Holistic testing is a term that I have been thinking about for a while now. There are many different types of testing that need to included in our support for […]
GWT Challenge #22

This post is in response to a challenge that was posted on: How to identify the intent of a confusing scenario? The challenge: When faced with a confusing scenario written […]
Reflections

My thoughts from the Panel Discussion – Future of Women in Agile In March 2021, I had the privilege of co-hosting a panel discussion with Ellen Grove. The discussion was […]
Testing And Coding, Not Coding “Then” Testing

This quote was recently published with the question “Hmm😶 What’s your take on this?” You can read some of the comments here. It made me realize that I should probably […]
Part 4: Testing vs Quality Management – Quality Management

QUALITY MANAGEMENT This post is the final post in my series about what I see as the differences between testing (Part 1 – What is Testing and Part 2 – […]
Part 3: Testing vs Quality Management – What is Quality

What is Quality In my most recent blog posts ‘What is Testing’ and ‘Testing Activities’, I shared my thoughts on testing. There is a close relationship between testing and quality, […]