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Maaret Pyhäjärvi
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Oct 27, 2019

Ensemble Testing — How to Enable Better Habits and Skills

Five years ago, I was sitting in a conference front row feeling puzzled. I was listening to Woody Zuill on Ensemble (Mob) Programming and the idea he presented felt too extreme to be good: Whole team working on the same thing using one computer. I had to try it and…

Software Development

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Mob Testing — How to Enable Better Habits and Skills
Mob Testing — How to Enable Better Habits and Skills
Software Development

3 min read


Jul 27, 2019

Turning Ideas into Code

Recently, I’ve been asked to visualize our software process. Whenever I see visualizations of what we’re supposingly doing or supposed to do, they make me cringe. Yet, I find myself not able to do any better. …

Tech

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Turning Ideas into Code
Turning Ideas into Code
Tech

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Jul 3, 2019

What is Exploratory Testing?

It has been 35 years since Cem Kaner coined the term to describe a style of skilled multidisciplinary testing common in Silicon Valley. I’ve walked the path of exploratory testing for 25 years and it has been a foundational practice in becoming the testing professional I am today. …

Software Development

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What is Exploratory Testing?
What is Exploratory Testing?
Software Development

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Aug 26, 2018

The Driver-Navigator in Strong-Style Pairing

There’s no better way of learning programming or testing than working together with people, building on one another’s insights. Well, it does not always feel like the best way if the power dynamics are off and the skills and understanding of how to work well in a pair are not…

Programming

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Programming

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Aug 18, 2018

Styles of Pair Testing

You must have heard about pair programming and it’s testing sibling, pair testing. What you might not have realized that there are two significantly different styles of pairing. We call one traditional and the other strong-style. …

Programming

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Styles of Pair Testing
Styles of Pair Testing
Programming

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Aug 12, 2018

Exploring Gilded Rose

There is a lot of talk around testing — who will do it, when it needs to happen, boxes it needs to fit in — yet not enough on the actual testing. This is the first article in the series of looking at software to test, and figuring out how…

Testing

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Exploring Gilded Rose
Exploring Gilded Rose
Testing

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Jul 30, 2018

What is Exploratory Testing — the Programmer Edition

It has been 34 years since Cem Kaner coined the term to describe a style of skilled multidisciplinary testing common in Silicon Valley. …

Software Development

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What is Exploratory Testing — the Programmer Edition
What is Exploratory Testing — the Programmer Edition
Software Development

6 min read


Jul 30, 2018

What is Exploratory Testing?

It has been 34 years since Cem Kaner coined the term to describe a style of skilled multidisciplinary testing common in Silicon Valley. I’ve walked the path of exploratory testing for 25 years and it has been a foundational practice in becoming the testing professional I am today. …

Software Testing

5 min read

Software Testing

5 min read

Maaret Pyhäjärvi

Maaret Pyhäjärvi

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I'm here to figure out what contents people would like on my book on LeanPub: http://leanpub.com/exploratorytesting

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