The Hidden Loop of Quality Engineering
Quality engineering is a fun, nebulous concept. I m into it because of that, not through any deep belief, just the freedom it affords. You can be a great exploratory tester and still be a quality [ ]
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Your AI Transformation
How s your AI transformation going? Not your company s AI transformation, I already know how that s going. Pretty similar to their agile transformation I imagine. Or even their digital transformation, my personal favourite wheeze, something so [ ]
Six out of Ten
Warning this is an old man shouts at cloud sort of post. Just let me get it out of my system. I ve never seen anyone actively talk about this but I ve noticed that as [ ]
Project Driven Quality Engineering
Spoiler project driven quality engineering doesn t work and you are inflicting damage on QE/QA/testing professionals if you are in charge and think it does. I was chatting with Simon Tomes on the wonderful MoT [ ]
Prioritised List of Features™
Maybe this fits in that special category of simple concepts that are fiendishly difficult to actually achieve. All I want is a Prioritised List of Features™ to work on. It is vanishingly rare though, I [ ]
Looks Good to Me Culture
I don t know when this started, or when I started to notice it, but so many bugs, tickets, pull requests and other artefacts of our work in software are signed off with: Looks Good to [ ]
‘The Figma’
I have to be careful here, lest I fall into the trap of labelling the tool as the problem, when I know it s not. However, I have to say that Figma has become a repulsing [ ]
Glue Work
I have made a career from doing glue work. I loved it. Bringing people together, caring about the customer journey, facilitating planning and retrospectives, crafting user stories and the like. It really makes you stand [ ]
My First Project Blocking Bug
When I first became a tester, the company I worked for had found one of the many ways of building software that encouraged bugs in their thousands of all shapes and sizes. Quality was someone [ ]
How I do exploratory testing
Wayne Roseberry posted the other day about how few testing blogs are about testing. I mean there are loads of other skills around testing that need to be explored, but I take his point about [ ]