Be still, your beating heart. I’m a tester, of course I report bugs. But what about when I’m not being a tester, and I’m just a normal user? I can only remember four occasions when I’ve reported bugs to the people that could actually do anything about it, but I actually find […]
Category: Software Production
Tester’s First TestBash
TL; DR: TestBash Manchester was amazing! I’d highly recommend going and / or sending your team there. The talks and the people were well worth it and even better than I thought they would be. This post has two main purposes: I want to try and deepen the learning from a great conference […]
Are Value and Delight Mutually Exclusive?
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. […]
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 […]