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Category: Reflections

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How to Manage Your Fucks (and Other Coping Mechanisms)

7th November 20187th November 2018 Cassandra H. Leung 3 Comments

  This post is a follow-up to my TestBash Manchester 2018 Open Space session on mental health and how people try to manage theirs.   The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck   Like many others, I have ups and downs in my mental health.  I had a particularly low “down” period a few […]

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Verification as Code

11th September 201811th September 2018 Cassandra H. Leung 3 Comments

  I recently listened to a talk by Matt Long on Why We Should Test Programmable Infrastructure.  You can watch a version of it on the MoT Dojo.  During the talk, he used the phrase “infrastructure as code”, which you may have heard before.   Wikipedia describes “infrastructure as code” as: “the process of managing […]

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The Rabbit Poop Approach to Learning

21st May 201821st May 2018 Cassandra H. Leung 5 Comments

  I’ve been thinking a lot about learning, and have been trying to examine and understand more about the way that I learn.  For me, there are three levels or stages of learning: Absorb (often through reading, watching, or listening) Experience (first hand exposure through active participation or passive observation) Teach (possibly through mentoring, speaking, […]

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SBTM in Practice with PQIP

2nd May 20189th May 2018 Cassandra H. Leung 9 Comments

    Last year, I wrote about my first experience with SBTM, in collaboration with Mike Talks.  Since then, I’ve had the opportunity to use SBTM in the “real world”, on a client project that I was on for about six months.  I’d like to reflect on that experience, and consider some of my learnings, […]

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Neurodiversity and My Problem with WIP Limits for Creative Work

6th April 20189th May 2018 Cassandra H. Leung 4 Comments

  On a recent project with a client, I helped the development team to implement a work in progress (WIP) limit.  As the team got used to working towards finishing things before starting to work on new user stories, there was a noticeable improvement in the flow and pace of stories that were ready to […]

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Blogs about testing, UX, and software production from Cassandra H. Leung - a tester, UX enthusiast and international speaker.

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