There is no-one-right-way of on-boarding a tester or any other type of employee with experience into your team. Big companies and smaller companies will tend to do this completely differently and the jury is still out on whether one is right and the other is wrong. But there are keys to helping your new employees […]
Next time you give a progress report think about what is the important information you want to communicate to your project team. Here is a list of examples of things we usually forget to add to our reports…
Are you familiar with”Inside the Actors Studio“? In his program James Lipton always asks his guest Bernard Pivot’s 10 Questions to help the audience get a more personal perspective of the Actor. Out of these questions (one of which is the title of this blog post), the following two questions are the ones that always resonate with […]
Every tester knows that a trend graph is better than a snapshot graph, right? This is why when we came up with the idea of the State of Testing project, together with our friends from TeaTime with Testers, we decided up front that this would be a yearly project. This way we would be able […]
A couple of nights ago my husband, who is a civil engineer, asked “What are you working on?“. “Oh, just reading this article about Agile Testing and Continuous Integration” I replied off hand. To what he replied [in a cautious tone]: “OK… That sounds interesting, I guess…” . It is a known fact that every profession has it’s […]
It is a simple and yet mostly forgotten fact that whatever you measure will improve. Still, most testers don’t take advantage of this principle in order to help their testing process and the overall status of their projects. This post is about how you can use measurements in your favor and even on some of […]