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 […]
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Do we trust our code?
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 […]
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Releasing bugs is a team effort
In modern development we have many layers of automated testing and there’s manual functional and exploratory testing. We’re shifting testing further and further left to catch things early – ideally before a line of code is written. So why do so many applications that we use day-to-day have bugs? Why aren’t we as members of […]
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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 […]
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. […]
My biggest challenge when switching back to test Before I start, a bit of background. I started at my current company as a Software Test Engineer. I didn’t really enjoy the very rigid processes that we had in place and felt it didn’t make the most of my creative ability to find bugs. I ended […]
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 […]
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Hello World
Like so many people around the world, I am currently not working due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However I hope to take advantage of my spare time by gaining more knowledge on software testing and general good practice for software development. Having seen quite a few interesting talks, with my notes jotted on notepads or […]