Posts
2024
- Expert Testing Advice: 10 Industry Leaders Share Their Top Tips
- Top Questions to Ask in Your Next Job Interview
- Book Review: Holistic Testing
- 5 Interview Tips to Help You Nail Your Next Job Interview
- Book Review: Leading Testing Activities
- Oredev Conference - Day 3 2024
- Oredev Conference - Day 2 2024
- Oredev Conference - Highlights from Day 1 2024
- Reflections on Being a Manager for (Almost) 2 Years
- The Importance of Perception in Software Testing
2023
- Book Review: Lessons Learned in Software Testing
- Book Review: Engineering Management for the Rest of Us
- Key Takeaways from the Simple Tests for Accessibility Webinar
- How can ChatGPT help me as a software tester?
- Is It Ready For Test?
2022
- Learning How to Create an Environment of Psychological Safety
- How to Test Before Code is Written
- How to Find a Software Testing Job
- Staying Motivated as a Tester
- Nudging Your Way Through Agile Testing
- Speaking at a Conference: A Practical Guide for First-Time Presenters
- Software Testing Job Sites
- 8 Tips for Networking at Events
- Free Software Testing Programmes
- Interview With Vernon Richards
- Struggling to motivate yourself to learn something new?
- Invest in Yourself
- Should I Learn Test Automation?
- Open Source Projects You Can Contribute To
- How I Learned to Write Test Automation as a Non-Technical Person
- What Has Helped Me in My Testing Career
- Interview With Lisi Hocke
- The Beginners Guide to Blogging for Testers
- 11 Public Speaking Tips That You Might Not Know
- The Best Testing Tips from The Test Chat Challenge
- Interview With Ajay Balamurugadas
- Interview With Laveena Ramchandani
- How to Make Quality a Team Effort
- Interview With Maaret Pyhäjärvi
- Will A Blog Help My Career?
- Interview With Lisa Crispin
- The Opportunity Cost of Test Automation
- Interview with Lena Nyström
- Achievement Unlocked: Going Live
- Interview With Callum Akehurst-Ryan
- Interview With Elizabeth Zagroba
- How To Test In A High Developer-To-Tester Ratio
- Testing With Charles Proxy Part 3
- Testing With Charles Proxy Part 2
- Testing With Charles Proxy Part 1
- Should I Raise An Intermittent Bug?
- Why You Should Ask For Feedback
- 3 Test Ideas for eCommerce Sites
2021
- Interview with Christina Ohanian
- Bloggers Club: Oracles and Heuristics
- How do you actually prevent bugs?
- How to start your career in software testing
- Are we talking about the same thing?
- Coming up with a device testing strategy
- Why diversity matters (to me)
- Choosing what not to write automated tests for
- Getting started on a testing project (revisited)
- Step by step guide to becoming a technical tester
- Interview with Marie Cruz
- Interview with Emma Bostian
- The Economics of Software Testing: The Sunk Cost Fallacy
- Interview with Andreas Lindgren
- Do I prefer manual testing or test automation?
- Bloggers Club: Implementing Change
- Learning how to hold retrospectives
- Why it's important that it's safe to fail
- Minimalism and test documentation
- Waterfall, Baking and Slow Feedback
- Bloggers Club: First day in a team
- Feedback: Solicited vs Unsolicited
- Dealing with Intermittent Bugs
- Bloggers Club: What's the most fun you've had with a bug
- Tackling Test Automation Part I: What problem are you trying to solve?
- Bloggers Club: The Essential Skills for Testing
- The Economics of Software Testing: The Law of Diminishing Returns
- Explore/Exploit: An approach to software testing
- What I wish I knew when I started testing: Get involved with the testing community
- Bloggers Club: Managing and Achieving Goals
- How to write a bug report defect report with an example
- The Economics of Software Testing: Opportunity Cost
- What I wish I knew when I started testing: Expectations vs Reality
- My Most Used Test Heuristics (with examples)
- How to add an image for multiple locales using XCTest
2020
- Step by step guide: Testing without requirements little requirements
- 3 Things I've learned: Adjusting to my changed identity as a (paid) working mother
- Bloggers Club: What's the best career advice you've had?
- Bloggers Club: I wish I knew more about...
- 4 Books Which I've Found Useful for my Testing
- My learning journey while on maternity leave
2019
- 4 Testing Tips for Beginners
- Lessons Learnt: Testing in a Changing Context
- Scrum and Psychological Safety
- Testbash Brighton 2019 Conference Day Part II of II
- Testbash Brighton 2019 Conference Day Part I of II
- TestBash Brighton 2019: Morning Workshop on Context Driven Coaching... There is no script.
- Reflecting on leading a Testing Community of Practice Part II
- Reflecting on leading a Testing Community of Practice Part I
2018
- How to set up a proxy on Charles (so you can test other devices on your local dev machine)
- My experience at Agile Testing Days 2018
- My experience at Belgrade Test Conference 2018
- An Analogy to Explain the Limitations of Test Cases
2017
- Experience Shapes Perspective
- The limitations of Acceptance Criteria
- My Testbash Belfast 2017 Experience Report
- My Experience at Romanian Testing Conference 2017 - told through photos
- Don't call it exploratory testing (if it's not exploratory testing)
- Interview with Mark Winteringham
- Getting started on a testing project
- Developing your thoughts: Talking out loud
- Do you see what I see?
- Find (and surround yourself by) inspiring people at work
- How To Incorporate Humour Into Speeches
- Handling nerves when public speaking
2016
- Interview with Rosie Sherry
- What I learned from giving my first ever workshop
- Interview with Olof Svedström
- Leetspeak: My First Developer Conference - An Experience Report
- Protecting your time
- Starting a Testing Meet-up - the first few steps
- Interview with Maria Kedemo
- My 4 Main Takeaways from Let's Test 2016
- Experience Report: Giving a talk at Let's Test as part of Speak Easy
- My 5 Biggest Takeaways from the BBST Bug Advocacy Course
- My (brief) Experience Report: TestBash 2016
- Talking to Students about Testing at a Job Mentoring Programme: Mentor Sverige
- Getting back into Toastmasters
- 4 Tips for Working Remotely
2015
- What's the purpose of Test Documentation?
- Software Testing is not for Attention Seekers
- The Girl Who Cried Wolf - Picking Your Battles
- Google Hangout Interview with Katrina Clokie
- A reflection on Let's Test 2015: Part II
- A reflection on Let's Test 2015: Part I
- Interview with Shirley Tricker
2014
- Bug Advocacy Part II
- Interview with Kim Engel
- Bug Advocacy Part I
- BBST Foundations: Is it for me?
- 3 Ways to Improve your Communication Skills