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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

How I got into testing

In my first post, I talked a bit about why I decided to start this blog. I often get asked how I ended up in testing given my previous career seems so different, so I thought I would step back a few years and talk about what made testing such a good fit for me…. Read more