When I first started testing within the games industry we would perform general “destructive testing”. This basically meant there was no specific work so we went off to find bugs (or slack off). I liked to pick on a particular area and would explore that and the behaviours, looking for any little nuances. Over the […]
In late September I attended my first in person testing conference, TestBash UK. I’ve previously been to online events, in person agile and development conferences and an alternative style event – TestBashX Edinburgh, but this was especially exciting. I was attending as a speaker. Life Goals Now before I talk more on my actual experience […]
I started as a manual QA tester for a games company back in 2008 as part of a massive team, very disconnected from developers. Since then I’ve worked in smaller test teams, within feature teams (i.e. server software) and within a scrum team. This includes a chunk of time where I was the developer, with […]
As I reflect upon my career and what the future might hold, it made sense to consider my strengths but I realised that I should also think about my weaknesses. In terms of hard skills, I know that the fact that the nature of the software that I’ve worked on means that I don’t have […]
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 […]
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.
I believe this is a fairly common thing to do and hopefully useful for myself. Lets have a look back at the bizarre year that was 2021. Key events: Officially became an employee of Motorola Solutions, following a takeover last year. Moved to a new office, which I visited a handful of times. Started a […]
I am a test engineer at my current work. After watching a number of talks at Ministry of Testing I also signed up for a secondary role; Cyber Champion. Through this role I’ve been learning about many aspects of cyber security and then running brown bags for our office to help people learn more about […]
Before I begin, I have spent several years as a software engineer and was decent enough at it. As part of this I would write my own automated tests. Since switching to test, I’ve developed a host of handy test tools, developed simulators and even made my own automation tool that used our SDKs to […]
Often a user story, PBI or whatever can include a number of alternate paths, scanerios or examples. The team has ideally listed them during backlog refinement and 3As. When a diligent software engineer picks up the item, they can write their automatic acceptance tests and also provide manual testing as well, listing the testing in […]