Testing Sucks. I hate Testing.
Thursday, May 24, 2012 10:24 AM
You may know the situation; you are at a conference (or meetup) and you get talking to someone who says they “hate testing”. What do you do? Run away? Tell them to “man-up” and stop complaining? Join them in a whinge about Testing? There are many other potential answers, but another one I’ve started doing [...]
The Phoenix Checklist – Mind Map
Wednesday, May 16, 2012 15:26 PM
I’ve written about the Phoenix Checklist before here and think the list is so important that I include a quick reference on my site here. I wanted to print the list out for quick reference at my desk so I decided to create a couple of mind maps. I like using mind maps for quick [...]
Running Lean Book Review
Wednesday, May 09, 2012 08:00 AM
One of the things that strikes me about the book Running Lean is how practical almost all of the advice is. It’s not a long book, but it gave me great breadth of knowledge in to the aspects of running a lean business. It’s not a massive step from most of the good Toyota books [...]
Getting a grip on exploratory testing
Tuesday, May 08, 2012 14:17 PM
Last week we had the pleasure of inviting James Lyndsay to our offices in rainy Basingstoke for a two day course on “getting a grip on Exploratory Testing”. The whole test team were there for the two days and we worked through a number of elements of Exploratory Testing, right from time managements and focus [...]
Jazz…Nice
Thursday, April 26, 2012 09:00 AM
One of the books that has made a big difference to how I’ve been thinking about teams, people and the dynamics that go on as people create software is a book called The Jazz Process The book is written by Adrian Cho who both works in an agile team and plays Jazz, so he’s in [...]
Agile South Coast Meetup
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 08:28 AM
I attended the Agile South Coast Meetup last night in Southampton, the first one I’ve been to in about 3 years. It was good to meet up with the guys again and despite a small crowd it was an interesting evening. The first part of the talk was about change models and then the second [...]
Anchoring
Monday, April 23, 2012 09:00 AM
Imagine you are being asked to give an estimate for the completion of a piece of work. Imagine that this group includes Testers, Product Owners, Programmers and representatives from different departments. Imagine that you are going to have to haggle, negotiate and barter to get the time you think you need to do a good [...]
Testing over time
Tuesday, April 03, 2012 12:31 PM
I’ve been using Google Books nGram a lot recently whilst I research some topics for blog posts, books, articles and other writing. It’s a great way of searching on a term and then finding related books. In fact, it’s so good that my impossibly large reading list has grown from 1498 books to 2200+. I [...]
Testers Learning To Code
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 12:56 PM
One of the topics that always pops up in conversation with Testers is whether or not we need to know how to code. I think a lot of this depends on your context and your career goals and aims, but really it pays to at least understand how the code is hanging together and to [...]
Test Bash > Done
Monday, March 26, 2012 15:44 PM
It was so great to be part of the Test Bash last Friday in Cambridge. I for one had a great day and I’m so glad that others did too. The feedback we received about the event was great and it was clear from the vibe throughout the day that people enjoyed themselves, mingled and [...]
