“I fear that posting this will have negative consequences for me, but I feel more strongly that I need to share this experience and raise awareness.” It’s been a year and a half since I shared my story of Sexual Harassment in Tech & the Testing Community. It was an extremely difficult thing […]
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On Unit / Integration / Regression Tests and Terminology
This post is inspired by several conversations I’ve had over the years, as well as my own musings about testing targets, testing intentions, and terminology. I’ve noticed that there’s often confusion and a great effort to give different types of tests (or those perceived as such) different names, and having only one name […]
Brag Board Template (How to Make Your Work – and Achievements – More Visible)
This is a companion post to my TestBash 2025 talk on How to Make Your Work – and Achievements – More Visible. Here, you will find the Brag Board template shown in the talk. .pdf: Brag Board Template – CassandraHL Miro board: Brag Board Template After the talk, […]
On No / Low Code and AI for Automation, Testing, and Quality Engineering
This post has gone through a few versions, as I figured out exactly what it was I wanted to get across. Please bear with me, but also feel free to skip. I think my TL;DR is: I’d rather write automation code than use a no / low code tool, even though I don’t […]
Salesforce UI Automation: POM vs UTAM vs TestZeus Hercules
Having joined my first Salesforce project just over six months ago, we’re now ready to consider automating the UI. We previously had one automated UI flow for our old system, which was completely different, and this was created as more of a proof of concept (PoC) for automated system integration tests across different […]
CRAIC SOURCERERS: How to Test Like a Tester
Yes, you read that right. CRAIC SOURCERERS. As in, “what’s the craic”? It’s a mnemonic I came up with while trying to think of ways to help people test like a tester – like this tester, at least. Whether you’re preparing for your resident testing specialist to be out of office, wondering how […]