30 Days of Automation in Testing - Days 1 to 4
Jul 11, 2018
I’ve been meaning to complete one of the Ministry of Testing’s 30 Days of Testing challenges for a while. I got about two thirds of the way through the first one as a team exercise, then everyone “got busy with other things”, and it died a horrible death, with the checklist languishing on the wall for a couple of months as a reminder of how we’d failed.
When the latest one, 30 Days of Automation in Testing, was announced I tweeted this:
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Hacking the rules (in a safe space)
May 29, 2018
Have you ever played a game of Shared Assumptions? You might’ve. I made the name up.
It’s a game I’ve both seen as part of training courses on specification ambiguity and something I would swear I invented when drunk once.
Do you remember Guess Who?
It’s a game where players take turns asking yes/no questions about the appearance of the character on their opponent’s card, aiming to be first to identify the character their opponent holds.
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Choosing an API tool
May 2, 2018
A story about selecting tools from my previous job.
In the dark days, we explored as a user would, and when things changed, we explored again.
Later, it got lighter, and we used tools like Fiddler to help us explore. We saw more, and we used our tools to explore deeper than we could before.
Before too long, we started automating.
One time, we encountered a problem where we needed to know if a piece of common markup (in this case, a support popup) displayed correctly in all of our sites, in all of the browsers and in all of the languages.
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The nonsense of gender-influences on testers
Oct 13, 2017
Have you been watching Duck Quacks Don’t Echo? Lee Mack has guests on and they talk and test lesser-known facts. For instance, did you know that:
People with blue eyes have a higher tolerance for alcohol than brown-eyed people The chlorine in swimming pools smells because the pool is dirty I’ll be honest, the gags are naff, and not all facts are interesting facts, but I approve of their testing of things, and every once in a while, there’s a fact that tickles my professional interest.
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T7: Dig Deeper
Aug 29, 2016
During a recent conversation on Testers.io, I asked whether anyone had cool resources or ideas that I could take to my test team meeting as an activity to keep everyone thinking. My team is mixed level, so I want activities that add XP to my juniors but without boring the seniors. (Side note: I hate junior/senior terminology, and want something better. Ideas?)
Ideas weren’t forthcoming, so I thought I’d start writing some of my own.
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The Carwash Analogy
Apr 24, 2015
I was recently having a discussion with a developer friend of mine about why he should recruit testers (since they currently don’t). It bothers me that the end of the conversation didn’t end “Dan, you’re absolutely right, I’m totally getting me some of them!”.
Explaining testing well is no easy task. What if the company is doing well with their current quality level?
The problem here is that testers don’t have a largely tangible output.
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The Persona of a Tester
Apr 10, 2015
Hey it’s springtime, and there’s a new testing blog, so given the time of year, you should be expecting a write-up of my experiences at the recent (and excellent!) TestBash 2015.
I might get to that, but not today.
Instead, I wanted to share a great picture with you that really captured the essence of testing for me, and perhaps why I still enjoy testing after years in the industry when some tire of it, or use it as a stepping stone to other things.
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