This is a project by Rob Lambert and Joel Montvelisky (you can see a short bio of us on the right side of the screen) where we answer a number of interesting questions that we get from testers constantly, and that focus around a number of different areas of our very interesting profession. You are more than welcome to contact us if you have your own question and would like us to answer it! Write to us at podcast@practitest.com
How’s life Joel: January is proving to be very busy! We are running the State of Testing, so I want to plug that one since we need the help of everyone filling out the survey. Rob: Great Christmas break, now back into a new year with new opportunities. I’ve been somewhat bemused by the rise […]
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How’s life Joel: November was crazy! I managed to be in the UK, Spain, Germany, Austria, and 4 different cities in the US. 4 Testing conferences – QA&Test, Agile TD, Testing United, and ConTEST NYC. Visited some amazing PractiTest’s customers. Was hardly at home all month long 🙁 And if that wasn’t enough we had […]
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Joel: Needless to say and come clean, I work for PractiTest and we have a Test Management tool / Service. This means that I basically get paid by the fact that people write their test cases upfront and then track their runs. But working for a company such as PractiTest, and before that for Mercury […]
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Joel: I got back from Japan a couple of days ago. Just like I do in most of my trips, I got to sit and talk to testers. I talked to testers in small companies, to testers in huge organizations, had sessions in 2 meetups, and in general had a chance to listen and learn […]
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What came first, the chicken or the egg? Or to put it differently and in our context, the fact is that many companies are looking for junior testers with some testing experience, but then again how can you get that initial experience to get started in testing? This vicious circle is both annoying and frustrating, […]
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We all have new testers joining our teams and it is always a question what should we include in the initial training program for a new tester? On the one hand, we want to get people, especially young testers, to get their feet wet and their hands dirty with real testing work. But on the […]
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First of all, we want to thank our listener Patryk for suggesting this topic! Guys, feel free to write to us with questions and ideas for topics to review! Let’s start with a simple question, why do we need customer data? What’s wrong with the data we already have? Why use customer data? There are […]
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Can Developers test? I guess we’ve all been asking this question for a long long time. Back in the long passed Waterfall days the answer to this question was simple. We would ask “Can developers test?” and the answer would have been “WHO CARES?” Since the people who had the job and responsibility to test […]
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testing an application used by people from many countries and backgrounds Funny thing happened on the way to this podcast, I suggested the topic given that we are introducing PT to Japan and seeing how the cultural differences are big between the Japanese market and the rest of the world. And when I suggested it, […]
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Exploratory Testing – Why, what and when? Unless you have been stuck under a rock for the last 15 years, and even if you have been stuck under a rock testing, then we are sure you have been doing some sort of Exploratory Testing as part of your work. We all do ET, but we […]
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The world is now a Global Village, and this is bringing many good things, but also quite a lot of challenges.
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Bugs are an important part of the work of testers, but for some reason we tend to take them for granted, and don’t invest the proper value and thoughts to them. I am not saying they are the most important part of the process, but they are an incredibly useful output and measurement if you […]
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Bugs are an important part of the work of testers, but for some reason, we tend to take them for granted and don’t invest the proper value and thoughts to them. I am not saying they are the most important part of the process, but they are an incredibly useful output and measurement if you […]
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Some tips for hiring managers and testers both seeking for the next best thing.
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Back when we used to all work Waterfall or V or W Model, it was a standard part of the process to have a planning phase for each of your project stages. And for the Testing stage or stages (if you were more into V than Waterfall) we had our own document describing all the […]
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Testers or Quality Assurance? Can we influence or drive quality? Should we? People can and should, but not everyone can. And some organizations do not welcome it. We can and should, but not everyone CAN right now. It’s all about communication skills – being able to articulate ideas and change. And also to the right […]
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Culture is nothing more than group habit – it’s what people do every day. So in order to change a culture to one of a “quality” one, you must identify the behaviors that lead to good outcomes and encourage these throughout the organization 1% improvements I first heard about the 1% approach when I read […]
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As the testing world evolves, the lines between tester and developers are starting to fade. Testers now need to have some programming abilities as well.
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Joel and Rob discuss what skills and roles testers should focus on for career development and what niches of software testing are open to testers.
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How to find materials for reference that can be used as requirements, whether it’s a person, a system or any other source, go ahead and find out.
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With the basic understanding that we can’t test everything, we need to decide what are we going to test. This is where risk-based testing enters the picture.
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Some tips and tricks from veteran conference speakers on how to better your chances to get selected to speak at a testing conference.
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You shouldn’t be afraid when your team is moving to agile, nobody expects you to become a developer. With that said, don’t consider yourself non-technical as testing is technical work even when coding is not required from the tester.
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Being a sole tester of a company is without a doubt a big responsibility, but not every bug found after releasing the product is your responsibility.
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Testing is rarely in the organization’s spotlight but when communicating the testing results and their meaning for releases, you can get their full attention.
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There are many possible paths you can take in order to start learning how to test. The path you choose is related to your background.
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