Testing skills I use in management – pair-blog # 1
Background A while back I asked on Twitter for people who would be up for pair-blogging. The idea was that we agree on a topic...
Listen beyond the pass and fail – a story of looking at the bigger picture
Note: This was originally published as a guest blog post for DevTestOps Community. I started a new job a few years back, with one of...
How to deal with criticism with being a tester
A while back, I had the pleasure of doing an online interview with Viv Richards and Graham Ellis around my contribution to the book “Around...
Delivering fast and slow – Ethics of Software Quality
Note: This blog post was originally published as a guest blog post on the LogiGear Blog under the name Continuous Quality – Ethical aspects of...
What (other) skills are most important for a tester?
I recently had the pleasure of attending TestBash Germany both as a workshop fascilitator and as a part of a speaker panel. On the panel...
When live gives you lemons – don’t let Bobby Drop-Tables steal them
So my recent Power Hour at Ministry of Testing got me thinking. To start: I’m sorry, tomorrow-morning-me, apparently I had to write this now, while...
Testing vs. Checking – separate entities or part of a whole?
There has been a lot of discussion, heated and calm, about the concept of testing. What it is. What it is not. Arguments about real...