
Reducing Uncertainty in Software Delivery
Agile, Automation, Collaboration, DevOps, Quality Awareness, talksA key theme that I’m seeing from these talks is that they are spending a lot of effort on learning from failure. Either by analysing ones that have happened in production or actively encouraging teams to cause failures.

Exploratory and Automated testing: Using the right techniques in the wrong contexts
Checks Vs Testing, contract testing, feedback, quality, Quality Awareness, Test automation, testability, Testing, unit testingExploratory testing is about testing in an unpredictable context and therefore detecting unpredictable failures in our software. Automated testing is about testing in a predictable context and therefore detecting predictable failures. The mistake we make with automation is we try to apply it to the wrong context

My biggest takeaways from AgileTD 2020: The future of testers isn’t in automation or testing
Agile, Collaboration, Kanban, leaders, leadership, links, psychological safety, Quality Awareness, talks, Test automation, testability, Tips, TOC, videos
I was lucky enough to speak at AgileTD this year and also attend some of the talks. These are my main takeaways from the conference based on the talks that I was able to make.
My confirmation bias sense is tingling with this but…
The…

August - Toread
Agile, code coverage, links, Quality Awareness, Reading, Testing, Tips
31st August
📻 How Can You Stop Comparing Yourself With Other People? If you manage people then this podcast is worth a listen. Having a better understanding of why we compare ourselves to others (social creatures living in hierarchical structures) and…

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?

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

The unintended consequences of automated UI tests
Android, Automation, Checks Vs Testing, Quality Assurance, Quality Awareness, Test automation, testability, Testing, unit testing
Whenever I see people talking about automated testing I always wonder what type of testing they actually mean? Eventually someone will mention the framework they are using and all too often it's a UI based automation tool that allows tests…

What is quality?
Agile, leadership, quality, Quality Assurance, Quality Awareness, TestingPeople view quality with a different lens therefore see the same system differently to one another. We as testers should help our teams to see quality through these different lenses by helping them identify these groups and what their measures of quality are.