A picture’s worth a thousand words, right? Then imagine what a series of pictures is worth… This is what we (at PractiTest) have been doing with the State of Testing project (now entering its 7th year). Each year we survey the professional worldwide QA community and publish the results in the annual State of Testing […]
Testing can sometimes be a lonely job. Testing can sometimes be a hard job. Testing can sometimes be an unpopular job. Testing can sometimes seem like a side job. Testing can sometimes feel like an irrelevant job. Testing can sometimes sound like a boring job. Testing can sometimes be portrayed as a job with no […]
So what can you do differently in 2020? Our job as testers has a rhythm to it, we work in cycles much as the seasons of the year. Sometimes it’s a long process from start to finish and other times it’s quick agile sprint or even short check following a CI build. In any case it’s […]
Many years ago, before leaving Costa Rica for Israel, a friend gave me a postcard that read: “Everyone you meet knows something you don’t know but need to know. Learn from them.” Back then I didn’t know who Carl Jung was (hint – the sentences above was not his biggest achievement), but the phrase stuck […]
It’s been a busy 2 weeks. As I wrote on my previous post I had a good time in Bilbao in QA&Test and got some nice inspiration from a number of talks in there. Last week (yes, I was home for less than 36 hours) I had the chance to attend Agile Testing Days in […]
Whenever I realize I made a wrong decision I will not think twice before moving in a new direction. But this, in my opinion, a good thing and here is why…