Push vs Pull Work
In a push system, teams are given tasks to do. In a pull system, teams pull tasks from a backlog or central place.
By moving towards a pull system our testers will have more ownership and responsibility over their work.
Test Planning
A collection of 10 issues
Do things that don’t scale
If you can find someone with a problem that needs solving and you can solve it manually, go ahead and do that for as long as you can, and then gradually automate the bottlenecks. – Paul Graham
With the title of Automation Engineer it might seem like automating bottlenecks is “my
Appropriate Test Documentation & Formatting
The Question
Recently in an online forum a tester person asked:
Does someone have a simple example of test case (excel sheet) format? I am the only one tester in my company and we are trying to arrange the test documentation. Any advice or example will be useful.
I wish
Selecting a few Platform Configuration Tests
I’ve been developing a GUI acceptance test suite to increase the speed of specific types of feedback about our software releases. In addition to my local environment I’ve been using Sauce Labs to extend our platform coverage (mostly by browsers and operating) and to speed up our tests
Exploratory Charters in GitHub
Since CAST 2015 I’ve wanted to implement an interesting idea that could potentially give my testing greater visibility and greater scrutiny: Putting exploratory testing charters into our project tracking tool.
At work we use GitHub to host our code which means we use GitHub Issues as our bug tracker.
And nothing else funny happened
I was recently talking with someone about their testing strategy and process when I noticed they were trying to build overly-detailed test scripts (procedures). It didn’t take them long to realize specifying to such detail often left them bored (writing became redundant) and so each test became less and
How do you handle regression testing?
Matt Heusser sent the context-driven-testing email group a series of questions about handling regression testing. Specifically he asked:
How do your teams handle regression testing? That is, testing for features /after/ the ‘new feature’ testing is done. Do you exploratory test the system? Do you have a standard way to
Throw someone else in to help QA it faster!
Throw someone else in to help QA it faster!
A former boss (or two) of mine
I’ve heard this statement many times in my career but it happened again just recently and it got me thinking. Aside from the poor choice of words, about “QAing” something (is that really
Rapid Testing Intensive Confirmed!
(Stolen from the Rapid Testing Intensive site)
It’s official I’m booked for the onsite Rapid Testing Intensive with James and Jon Bach at the end of July on Orcas Island in Washington. According to the website this testing intensive will be based on “… Session-Based Test Management and Rapid
5 Ways to Revolutionize your QA
I can’t remember where I originally found this post and the corresponding eBook but the eBook is definitely worth taking a look at. Here is the former uTest blog post, now Applause blog post.
The 5 ways or insights are:
1. There are two types of code and they