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#NoBlogPost

Today I woke up early determined to return to my blog on the bus series. A couple of reasons why. 1. I’ve found it liberating to not worry over being a perfectionist on writing the perfect sentence, phrase, or point. 2. Loads of people at Agile Testing Days told

Contemporary Quality Engineering

Contemporary Quality Engineering

> Quality engineering enables visualisation of the state of quality anytime in the delivery lifecycle of a system or service. It does so in terms of its business outcome. Anne-Marie Charrett (working definition) Services not Products The complexity and the distributed nature of our systems today means we are moving

The 'Do Nothing' heuristic

The 'Do Nothing' heuristic

Sometimes the thought of making ‘big’ decisions gives us that ‘rabbit in the headlights’ look. ‘Big’ decisions often have outcome can have a significant impact to either ourselves or our company. Lack of information can make these decisions harder to make. Constant decision making over sustained periods of time, and

No REST for women

No REST for women

There’s plenty of pages giving you links to API Software Testing. Right now in MoT 30 days API Testing Challenge, they are working on collating lots of these which is a great idea. I wanted to contribute using a different approach. I decided to collate and amplify material created

Under the Hood - Learning APIs

Under the Hood - Learning APIs

New to API’s and want to learn how to test them? Here’s some learning strategies to help you get started on your way. Feel the fear…and do it anyway For many, opening up the bonnet of a UI and staring at the underneath and the API and

Lethal Weapon

Lethal Weapon

I’ve spent a day testing a scheduler using a semi-automated technique. It’s a task that is cognitively demanding. It requires creating sophisticated test data, loading it into a scheduler, then identifying if the output is as anticipated. Sound’s interesting right? It is. There are lots of different

Embrace your inner strange

Embrace your inner strange

“Everybody Wants Some!!” It’s a nostalgic coming of age movie for male base ballers set in the 1980’s. The following conversation ensued between Jake and Willoughby (both pitchers): Willoughby: ..let me tell you something, Jake. It is lonely out on the bump, man. You know, hitters, they got