TL;DR: Why do testers keep falling out with one another? Perhaps because of communicate illusions. A communicative illusion is like an optical illusion – a fixed thing that appears to change, be multiple things, or be something completely different. They are influenced by the actual words we use and how we use them, […]
Category: Reflections
Quality Time: Guided Conversation Round-Up
The 2016 CodeCrafConf took place in Glasgow today, and I ran a guided conversation called “Quality Time” – a session on quality and testing where the attendees contribute to the discussion, as opposed to one person speaking. I wanted to do a very quick round-up of some of the things discussed, as the way the […]
Keep High Standards High
I disappointed myself today. After finishing up with what should have been the final test build before release, I made the decision to keep a small bug in the release build to avoid my colleague having to do another (manual) build to revert the changes that caused it. Yup, this was a new […]
MVP: Images Examined
One of the first discussions that caught my interest when I joined the Twitter testing community in April was around MVP. I’d seen a few people comment on the image below, that you’ve probably seen before, despairing that it’s still in circulation and being widely used as a visual aid to explain MVP. […]