
The courage to supercharge your testability
Agile, Collaboration, continuous improvement, feedback, incremental improvements, leadership, psychological safety, QA, relationships, testability, Testing, Uncategorised, working smarterTestability is all about building quality-in. It's about identifying known issues before they become a problem while coding. Pairing testers into this process can supercharge the testability feedback loop. It can allow you to pick up known and unknown issues. But pairing devs and testers together needs courage.

Why do we respond the way we do in social situations?
leadership, management, Neuroscience, psychological safety, Uncategorised
A colleague recently shared an article with me called Managing with the brain in mind. It argues that the workplace is experienced by employees as social structure first then a workplace and that keeping this mind might lead to better employee…

Building Quality in via Testability
Agile, Collaboration, psychological safety, quality, testability, Uncategorised, unit testing7 minute read
Back in March 2018 I visited The Design Museum in London and came across the above installation.
What you can see is technology design classics all the way from the first transistor radios on one side to the very first digital…

Junaid Valimulla: Are we nearly there yet?
Agile, feedback, Testing, Tips, Uncategorised, visulisationGuest 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…

How to break the rules?
Agile, Books, Kanban, Reading, TOC, Uncategorised, videosDan North gave a really interesting talk at last years GoTo Conference called How to break the rules.
He takes Eliyahu Goldratt 4 steps of how technology is adopted which he presented in a series of lectures he gave on why people didn't take…

Automating testing for BBC iPlayer mobile part two: automation
Android, Automation, Mobile, Test automation, Testing, Uncategorised
Originally posted on the BBC website 30 June 2014
This is the second part of a three post series exploring how the BBC iPlayer Mobile testing team has integrated automated user interface (UI) testing into their development practice.
This…

Automating testing for BBC iPlayer mobile part one: 3 Amigos
Android, Automation, Mobile, Test automation, Testing, Uncategorised
Originally posted on the BBC website 30 June 2014
In this three part series of blog posts I will be exploring how the BBC iPlayer Mobile team has integrated automated user interface (UI) integration testing into their development practice.
I'm…