During a recent Q & A session for my webinar “What a testing mindset brings to your agile team”, one of the participants asked me this question: Why do you […]
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A Quality Discussion
The quality discussion is a hard one to have – within teams, and within an organization. Lyssa Adkins, author of Coaching Agile Teams, sent out this inspirational quote along with […]
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Book Review – The Way of the Web Tester: A Beginner’s Guide to Automating Tests by Jonathan Rasmusson
Jonathan explains seemingly complicated concepts in a simple manner so that everyone can understand. If you are a tester working on web applications and want to gain some technical awareness […]
Read MoreIt’s Not My Job
A few weeks ago, I found myself sitting in a lounge chair relaxing on a beach enjoying the ocean view. It’s a tough life, I know. We were at a […]
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The CONVERSATION is what is important – not the tool
In my last blog post (June 2016), I talked about people’s perspective and that there is not usually only one point of view. Let’s use that concept to our advantage […]
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I’m Right, I’m Wrong … all the time
I was on vacation with my whole family in Hawaii. I heard my grandson (6) arguing with his dad out on the balcony. Brayden (my grandson) was looking at the […]
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Removing Clutter – Removing Defects
I found myself with two free days in Copenhagen, no family commitments and no work commitments, so I decided to make a personal commitment. I declared these two days a […]
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Book Review – Fifty Quick Ideas to Improve Your Tests
Book Review – Fifty Quick Ideas to Improve Your Tests, By Gojko Adzic, David Evans and Tom Roden The first thing I noticed when I opened the book to the Table […]
Read MoreAgile testing is not a methodology
This year at the EuroStar conference in Dublin, I was asked to do a 5 minute “Soap Box” talk. To me, that meant that I could do a little rant, […]
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Book Review: 50 Quick Ideas to Improve your User Stories by Gojko Adzic
In my opinion, this is a much needed book. I spend a lot of my time talking about testability of stories, and Gojko and David have given us many ideas […]
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