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Value of a bug report

Over the years I have seen an increase in the idea of not reporting defects within Jira, Azure DevOps, Bugzilla etc and having a conversation instead. If it is an issue within the story itself and an AC failure then I certainly see the merit in skipping the bug report. It can be busy work […]

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Non-technical testers are the gatekeepers of quality

Apologies for the intentionally ridiculous title, which is fitting in two of the most frustrating terms in testing. Non-technical testers is a term often used to describe a test specialist who doesn’t do automation. As I don’t write automated tests in my current role (and haven’t used Selenium), I guess that includes me then? No. […]

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Behaviour Driven Development as a manual test engineer

I’ve heard a lot of enthusiam for Behaviour Driven Development and seen a number of talks on the matter. However every time I dive into the subject, it leads into creating automated tests and my work is primarily with manual testing. Nonetheless I am fascinated by the topic and am keen to explore how we […]