How often have you heard: “Our quality is poor, we need more testing (or testers).” When you hear this, know that this indicates not only a spurious correlation but also a fundamental misunderstanding of what testing is or does. Come on this journey with me where I explore the above…

2018: For reference, here’s what I concluded in 2018, including some of my commitments for the new year of 2019. This story begins at the beginning of 2019, takes a few detours back and forth and stops at some pitstops along the way, and ends with my trip overseas at…

(Continued from Part 1.) Things went sour, very quickly. This part covers July 2018 to Feb 2019. (A lot of detail not shared, out of respect to those who really tried to help) As the months progressed, nearing 4 and 5 months now, I continued to struggle with the lack…

We are all so afraid of uncertainty that we want a guarantee before we even try. — Mel Robbins I tried a thing. And it somewhat backfired on me. But as I actually TRIED, I am still the winner because I learned something. Part 1 covers the background to the…

I saw a few reflections by others on their 2018 year and I loved reading what they’d learned and reflected on. Not all good, not all bad, but so insightful to me. This inspired me to write my own, more as a record for myself but hopefully insightful to others…

… and flavours thereof, is a question I have been hearing for years now. The same has been asked of Tech Leads, Operations Engineers, “Front End” devs, “Back End” devs, Security, Iteration Managers/Scrum Masters, Business Analysts, etc. Anything that is not a full-stack dev. …

Developers have — with the advent of DevOps — been working more and more in Operations and Infrastructure. Testers however, haven’t. Thus far, the testing personnel have been mostly or wholly assigned to application testing work. …

(originally written for and published in Testing Trapeze) Wikipedia defines a bug bash as: “… a procedure where all the developers, testers, program managers, usability researchers, designers, documentation folks, and even sometimes marketing people, put aside their regular day-to-day duties and ‘pound on the product’ — that is, each exercises…