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We don’t need validation – we know we’re important
00Without knowing programming, they [testers] can’t have any real insights into the kinds of bugs that come into software and the likeliest place to find them...
View ArticleScrum Case Study
00In the most perfect of methodology application, there is always room for improvement. To assume otherwise is misguided over-confidence. Take Scrum, the most used (and abused) of the modern...
View ArticleQuality Assurance
00Quality Assurance is an umbrella term for all processes and activities related to project quality activities. Testing is the most visibly used, but there are many benefits to adopting a general...
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Change please …
00Following reading Elisabeth Hendrickson’s post about disillusionment with with QA. There is too much resistance to the big change that is already upon us in QA, but so many in denial. We all need to...
View ArticleConsultant or Consultancy?
00Why choose a consultant over a consultancy? I operate as an individual consultant, with multiple skills, and extensive network. I can provide my consultancy alone, or if needs be, utilise my network...
View ArticleConsultant vs Consultancy
00Why choose a consultant over a consultancy? I operate as an individual consultant, with multiple skills, and extensive network. I can provide my consultancy alone, or if needs be, utilise my network...
View ArticleTesting is still alive and always will be
00As usual, the swing against testers has gone way too far (again). More technically competent, sure – but advertising for testers, focusing on programming ability alone will get you another developer....
View ArticleQuality Assurance
00Let me set something straight. Quality Assurance (QA) is about improving the process that is used to create the end result. In other words (in software development) the project lifecycle and all it’s...
View ArticleIt’s not like the good old QA days …
00I am starting to think those of us who grumble about misuse of term “QA” (Quality Assurance) are maybe in the realms of grumpy old men/women. I now beginning to realise that yes, people use the term...
View ArticleCertification bore
00I am glad to see the back of the oft-quoted phrase “anyone can be a tester”, commonly delivered on the back of numerous cack-handed Agile (mis)translations. Developers test, stakeholders test – why...
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