I love testing. I don’t love scripted, manual test cases. But the fact is that every job has elements you don’t enjoy, and every context needs something another doesn’t. Sometimes, scripted manual test cases are either the way to go, what the client wants, or both. So how do you write scripted, manual test […]
Category: Software Production
Why Are You Asking Me to Test?
I feel kind of bad for people who aren’t Quality Engineers, Testers, or whatever name you use for testing specialists. We talk about a whole team approach to quality and everyone on the team testing, but I can understand why this idea might be confusing to some. Programmers generally don’t ask other people to […]
There Is No “Manual vs Automated Testing” Conflict
I’m a little bit frustrated. Since Twitter died and I decided to start engaging on LinkedIn more, I keep seeing posts that perpetuate this idea of “manual” vs automated testing; us vs them. There is no versus. Your civil war is manufactured. There’s room for everyone and we all want the same thing: […]
The Five “I”s of Great Testing
What makes a great tester? A few discussions I’ve seen lately have gotten me thinking about this: What do testers do? How does an ISTQB-following tester compare to an “Agile” or “modern” tester? Is it a tester’s job to decide the severity and / or priority of a bug? Why do people use […]
CrowdStrike: The Blame Game
So, another huge IT outage occurred. This time, involving CrowdStrike. It seems like everyone and their pet tortoise has an opinion on this, so I didn’t jump in immediately. Here are some things I haven’t personally seen mentioned. Where’s Your DevOps Now? Remember when DevOps was this shiny, new thing that […]