Many people view testing as a checkbox exercise where you spend a chunk of time writing what you plan to test to verify the ACs (basically re-wording the ACs) and what you will regression test. This may be in test cases or tasks/comments on a story. Once reviewed/shared, the tester of the story would then […]
In a previous blog entry I talked about unit testing and how I’ve learnt from my (many) mistakes when writing unit tests and practices that I’ve seen that wind me up. Today I’d like to talk about how I’ve been writing unit tests recently, employing the ideas of TDD (test driven development), and some of […]
When I started working as a developer my mentor taught me to write unit tests with each changeset, so I did. After switching team, my new lead & mentor had us doing the same and I learnt new techniques to write more complex unit tests. When a couple of newer members joined the team, getting […]
You don’t need to understand code to make use of dump files. One tool that I’ve frequently used throughout my testing career (and also development) is WinDbg. I was a little surprised when I realised that very few other people use it so I thought that I’d share a little about why I use it […]
I’ve had a fairly varied career and in 2019 I took the unusual step of going from a developer to a manual tester. I’m glad that I made this choice and this post explores why.