Agile Testing book club: Everyone is a Tester
If you’ve even dipped your toe into the online testing community, there’s a good chance that you’ve heard Agile Testing by Janet Gregory and Lisa Crispin as a recommended read. A couple weeks ago I got my hands on a copy and thought it would be a useful exercise to record the highlights of what… Read more
What the Bug!? (An attempt at knowledge sharing, two ways)
When I was making the transition from waterfall style projects to agile teams in a previous company, one of the main things I struggled with was the loss of the testing team as we all became generic “software engineers”. We all still did the same testing tasks, but none of us were “testers” any more…. Read more
Tests vs Checks and the complication of AI
There’s a lot to be made in testing literature of the differences between tests and checks. This seems to have been championed primarily by Michael Bolton and James Bach (with additional background information here), though it has not been without debate. I don’t have anything against the distinction such as it is, but I do think… Read more
Yes, I test in production
Recently a post on Reddit about a company doing tests on a live production environment sparked some conversation on the Testers.io slack channel about whether “testing in production” is a wise idea or not. One Reddit user commented saying: Rule number 1 of testing (i.m.o): DO IT ON A NON-PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT. Rule number 2 of… Read more
How do you know you actually did something?
When I was defending my thesis, one of the most memorable questions I was asked was: “How do you know you actually did something?” It was not only an important question about my work at the time, but has also been a very useful question for me in at least two ways. In a practical… Read more