If you want your testers and your team to be GREAT you need to be ready to schedule tasks to “Waste Time” experimenting and looking at technologies and methodologies as part of their regular work. It is very easy to say that you don’t have time or that your schedule is too tight for this, but in the end these are the things that will make your team exceed in their work.
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Spring cleaning your testware
In my family we have a tradition, every Spring we systematically go over all the house cleaning, organizing and mostly getting rid of all the things that we don’t need anymore.n When was the last time you did something similar to your test cases and the rest of your testware?
Of Testers & Soldiers…
In many ways the objective of the QA Tester and of the Intelligence Officer are very similar. Each of us in his or her own contexts, are tasked with providing information that will help our superiors and the rest of the team/unit to do their work better and to make the correct decisions. Following a remark by Jerry Weinberg to one of my previous blogs, In this post I examine this topic and explain how today’s QA Engineers have some of the same challenges as Military Intelligence officers.
Five Testing Questions with James Bach
James Bach is one of the most influencing testers I know, he is one of the fathers of Exploratory Testing and the Context Driven Testing School. I asked James if he would be willing to answer my 5 testing questions and happily enough he agreed, so here you have Five Testing Questions with Mr. James Bach.
Five Testing Questions with Jerry Weinberg
There are questions that I am constantly asking myself regarding testing and QA. If you’ve read some of my previous posts you will certainly be no stranger to these questions or to my point of view on them. Some time ago I thought that it would be interesting to ask other testers what they thought about these questions. And then I thought that it would be even better if I could ask Mr. Jerry Wienberg. The amazing fact is that when I asked Jerry if he would be willing to answer my questions he answered that he’d be happy to.
To Protect and Serve
If you would need to choose a motto for the testing profession and all the testers worldwide, regardless of the company or applications they work with, what would it be? For me this motto would be “To Protect and Serve”!
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