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Agile Manchester 2020: Testers Edition

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, Tips

For 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…

How to move away from the In Test column

Agile, feedback, Kanban, Testing, Tips, TOC, visulisation

We as testers are always looking at ways to improve our testing processes and one way to do that is to move away from the In Test column. You can read more about the why in my post "In Test" column but the how I left pretty vague. I'd like to…

What is Contract Testing?

consumer-driven contract testing, contract testing, feedback, Test automation, Testing, unit testing

And Consumer-driven contract testing This is a follow on from Contract testing: Why do it First some quick definitions: Consumer Is someone (a dev team for instance) that makes use of a third party component or a combination of components…

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Contract Testing, Why do it?

consumer-driven contract testing, contract testing, feedback, Test automation, Testing, unit testing

I’ve been thinking a lot about contract testing lately and trying to explain why it’s a good idea. I thought I’d start by getting my initial arguments for it down and go from there. Got an opinion then let me know. Note:…

The unintended consequences of automated UI tests

Automation, Test automation, testability, Testing, Uncategorised

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…

Lenses of Quality

Agile, Testing, Tips

tl:dr: Another way to think about what quality means to software development teams. A while back someone on twitter asked what does quality mean to you. To which I responded: https://twitter.com/JitGo/status/1010031582395224064 Which not…

Junaid Valimulla: Are we nearly there yet?

Agile, feedback, Testing, Tips, Uncategorised, visulisation

Guest post from Junaid Valimulla currently working as a Senior Test Engineer who is continually learning and honing his craft. I first met Junaid back in my Sony Ericssion days as a Test Analyst and was always impressed with his ability to pick…

In test column

Agile, Kanban, Testing, visulisation

Update 4/1/20: I've also written about How to move away from the In Test Column A colleague recently asked me why I think the in test column is a bad idea. So I had a quick search around and couldn't find anything specifically on the topic…