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The beginning of discovery

The beginning of discovery

Lisa Crispin [https://lisacrispin.com/] picked up on this small seemingly innocent sentence about the importance of ‘shallow tests’ in discovery > “These [shallow] tests are often essential beginnings to discovery”Anne-Marie Charrett“Shallow Testing gets a bad rap” [https://mavericktester.com/2018/10/17/bos-series-shallow-testing-gets-a-bad-wrap/] I’m glad she

When the rubber hits the road

When the rubber hits the road

Anyone who has attempted to create and then implement a strategy, will know there’s a big difference between what is intended when the strategy is written, and what is realised on implementing a strategy. To the point in software testing, there’s been a push away from writing formal

Test Management Revisited

Test Management Revisited

The concept of test management sits awkwardly in agile, mostly because it’s a construct derived from the time when testing was a post-development phase, performed by independent testing teams. These teams were often of significant size, to reduce the time required to perform test execution. A test manager was

Starting Something

Starting Something

Your first child. Like many parents, I vividly recall my moment of reality when I realised my life (in a weird and wonderful way) would never be the same again. Being pregnant with my first child now feels like a time of great excitement and also great indulgence. Baby showers,

The Gratitude Jar

The Gratitude Jar

2019 has been an eventful year for many and the start of a new year is a great opportunity to say throw a slip into a gratitude jar [https://josierobinson.com/journal/how-to-use-a-gratitude-jar] to thank to those around you who have supported you in some way. Being the blog author

2020: The year of dumping old heuristics

2020: The year of dumping old heuristics

When software testing, it’s handy to use mnemonics/heuristics to refer to. They can be useful as generators of test ideas, or reminders to test in a particular way, or to consider some aspect. What’s a heuristic? Think of a heuristic as a rule of thumb that helps

13 Low Cost Ideas to start Quality Coaching right away!*

13 Low Cost Ideas to start Quality Coaching right away!*

The idea of being a Quality Coach or starting a Quality Coach program can seem overwhelming. Where do you actually start? You might get advice like the one above from the King in Alice in Wonderland gave which can seem profound, but in concrete terms, not very helpful! The scope