
How Falling Behind Can Get You Ahead
Agile, links, Reading, talks, videos“Jack of all trades, master of none,” the saying goes. But it is culturally telling that we have chopped off the ending: “…but oftentimes better than master of one.”

July - Toread
Agile, links, Quality Awareness, Reading, Testing, Tips
At the intersection of software, technology and people
What is this?
Things I’ve been reading this week that I’ve found interesting or intriguing. Sharing because I thought you might like them too. Most of the links…

Future of testers: somewhere between users, teams and businesses
Agile, Collaboration, Quality Awareness, testability, Testing
3 minute read
I've been thinking a lot recently about what the future of the testers role could look like. Especially in teams that not only fully embrace CI/CD or DevOps but actually get some way towards implementing the ideas behind the…

What do testers do next?
Agile, QA, Quality Assurance, Quality Awareness, TestingIf the perceived value of testers is just to test the changes made by the development team then the future of the testers role looks bleak but could it be more than this?

June - Toread
Books, Reading
Toread
At the intersection of software, technology and people
What is this?
Things I’ve been reading this week that I’ve found interesting or intriguing. Sharing because I thought you might like them too. Most of…

May - ToRead
Books, links, TipsThings I’ve been reading this week that I’ve found interesting or intriguing. Most of the links will revolve at the intersection between software, technology and people - with the occasional testing slant. I aim to update them weekly, with some commentary on my thoughts and findings

Building a quality culture: Is it quality assurance or quality awareness?
QA, quality, Quality Assurance, Quality Awareness, Test automation, testability, TipsA way to see if the work your are doing in your team is about building team awareness or team assurance of quality

Agile Manchester 2020: Testers Edition
Agile, Reading, talks, Testing, Tips
I’ve always found that tester representation at agile conferences to be lacking. It’s a bit like it doesn’t have the word test in the titles so it’s not for me. Personally I’ve always found a treasure trove of information from talks…

Building confidence with automation
Automation, Collaboration, documentation, testability, Testing, TipsFor automation to be accepted and therefore successful people need to feel confident in the process, but how do you do that for test automation? "Show" them the process or build trust with the person doing the work.

How to document Unit Testing
Collaboration, documentation, Test automation, testability, Testing, unit testing
Whenever you talk about unit testing with teams they never tell you what it means to them. They go straight to of course we do and show you 100s of passing tests. Interesting thing is by calling it unit testing everyone thinks they are talking…