Intermittent bugs can be a frustration for not only testers but the rest of a team. You may be lucky enough to uncover it before it reaches any beta testers or you may find yourselves having to figure out what the hell happened because a customer (or several) has reported it but you are struggling…More
Bloggers Club: What’s the most fun you’ve had with a bug
Project context: At my first ever project, I was one of the UAT testers for an internal application (only business user facing), where you would have to create different types of profiles (for people or for organisations) and then later edit those profiles or use those profiles to do certain things (I can’t be too…More
Tackling Test Automation Part I: What problem are you trying to solve?
For the past seven months, since I came back from maternity leave, I’ve spent the majority of my time focussing on test automation. I have both set up a test automation framework as well as overhauled two existing test automation frameworks for mobile (both Android and iOS). But one of the struggles I have faced…More
Bloggers Club: The Essential Skills for Testing
I’ve been pondering about this blog post since I saw the Ministry of Testing discussion post and to be honest, I really struggled to interpret it. I mean, how do I define essential skills exactly? To help me structure my thoughts for this post, I\’ll be interpreting “The Essential Skills for Testing” to be “What skills…More
Bloggers Club: The Importance of Exploratory Testing
Before we dive into the importance of Exploratory Testing, I would like to clear three things up. Firstly, I align with this definition of Exploratory Testing, by Cem Kamer, it is an approach to software testing that consists of simultaneous learning, test design and test execution. Secondly, I don’t think Exploratory Testing has to be…More
The Economics of Software Testing: The Law of Diminishing Returns
What the law of diminishing returns? if one input in the production of a commodity is increased while all other inputs are held fixed, a point will eventually be reached at which additions of the input yield progressively smaller, or diminishing, increases in output (Source: https://www.britannica.com/topic/diminishing-returns) How does the law of diminishing returns apply to testing?…More
Explore/Exploit: An approach to software testing
I recently read a chapter on Explore/Exploit in Algorithms to Live By, and saw how much this concept can apply to software testing. First, let\’s define what we mean by “Explore” and “Exploit” in the context of software testing. Explore: continue to explore the software under test and look into new areas of the SUT…More
What I wish I knew when I started testing: Get involved with the testing community
In November 2018, I gave a talk at Belgrade Test Conference on ‘What I wish I knew in my first year of testing’. Here’s the second post on the series with some key areas from that talk. (Here’s the link to the first post on Expectations vs Reality) This post will focus on more “accessible”…More
Bloggers Club: Managing and Achieving Goals
In this blog post, I will focus primarily on the struggles I’ve faced in managing and achieving my goals, as well as what I’ve learned from it. Less is better When it comes to managing and achieving goals, I’ve found that less is better. I used to have many goals (which I used to share…More
How to write a bug report /defect report (with an example)
Here’s a step by step guide on how to write a bug report /defect report, I will then follow this with an example at the bottom of this post. First, we need to ask ourselves a few questions: Why are we writing a bug report? So there is a record of the behaviour So that…More
