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Category: Reflections

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Are Value and Delight Mutually Exclusive?

11th October 20169th May 2018 Cassandra H. Leung 2 Comments

  Is it possible for a product to offer both value and delight on a continued basis?   Here’s just one variation of a pyramid showing the hierarchy of needs for an MVP.     On first thought, I found it quite disgraceful that many of the other variations didn’t even include “valuable” as a requirement.  […]

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Communicative Illusions – The Testing Community’s Affliction

5th October 20169th May 2018 Cassandra H. Leung Leave a comment

    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, […]

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Quality Time: Guided Conversation Round-Up

16th September 20169th May 2018 Cassandra H. Leung 2 Comments

  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 […]

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Keep High Standards High

7th September 20169th May 2018 Cassandra H. Leung 6 Comments

    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 […]

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MVP: Images Examined

26th July 20169th May 2018 Cassandra H. Leung 8 Comments

  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.   […]

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Blogs about testing, UX, and software production from Cassandra H. Leung (she / they) - a quality coach, software tester, UX enthusiast and international speaker.

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