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Testing in 2020 – Part I

By on February 3, 2011 in Conferences & Seminars, Testing Intelligence

How will software testing look in 2020? This is a question I was asked to talk about in a conference last week.
In this first post I wrote about the way factors that are causing the main changes and wrote in high level about the areas where I see will be biggest changes. In my next post I will write about these changes in more detail.

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It’s not them, it’s YOU!

By on October 3, 2010 in Communication, Management, Testing Intelligence

Stop blaming your development for not being able to influence your team as a tester. The change needed depends on you and not on the rest of your team.
Take charge of the value you add to your team and you will see how you start becoming part of the decision making staff.

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A chance to take a look back

By on August 30, 2010 in Best Practices, Communication, Management, Testing Intelligence

After a break of 2 months from posting I found myself reviewing the subjects I’ve talked about in the past in this QABlog. I found some interesting points to revisit briefly before renewing the regular posting.

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Testing the image in the mirror
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Why a good tester needs to be Self-Critical?

By on May 31, 2010 in Communication, Management, Testing Intelligence

Self-criticism is one of the most important traits of good testers, something that allows us not only to communicate better but also to improve your effectiveness as a tester.

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Do you think software testing is still in the Dark Ages? Turn on the lights!!!

By on March 8, 2010 in Communication, Management, Testing Intelligence

I read a blog by James Whittaker analyzing how for him Software Testing is still stuck in the 90s while the rest of the (technological) world has evolved greatly.  Today I will disagree with Mr. Whittaker since I think we as testers have not thrown all we’ve done away and we have seen real advancement [...]

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When your message is “clear as mud”

By on January 24, 2010 in Best Practices, Management, Testing Intelligence

There is a Marketing Saying along the lines of: “If you do something but you don’t advertise it, it’s like you didn’t do it at all” This saying is also very accurate in the case of testing, where if you do a test that finds critical issues but then you fail to report them it [...]

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