Tag: testing

  • Test Automation Myths

    There’s a lot of misconceptions about test automation. After doing it for a while you start to see what’s really true.

  • Why Two Pairs Of Eyes Are Better Than One

    Have you ever heard to saying that “Two heads are better than one?”. Well that’s not always true. The quick reason is group think, but we’ll have to get into all that later. Here’s something that is true. You don’t want the person who wrote the code to also be responsible for testing the same…

  • Can You Track Quality?

    Let’s improve quality is heard so often though that it’s easy for the concept to become background noise. Can you truly track quality though?

  • Testing Without Coding Skills

    So you’ve got some interest in your idea. The Developers ready for consistent work, users are begging for more features, and your minds racing with future possibilities. If you’re like most business owners, product founders, or solo entrepreneur software development probably isn’t your strongest skill set. Even if you are technologically gifted, software testing might…

  • How Often Should You Run Your Test?

    A few years ago, I was walking through the office and someone asked if we had a test written for a bug that was just found. Was pretty proud to say that we did. They then asked when was the last time it ran. I froze I had no idea. It was pretty embracing. Literally…

  • Tip For Product Owners Planning To Test An MVP

    MVP’s Product Owners & Testing Testing MVP’s Product Owners Testing As A Product Owner Was in an entrepreneurship program called The Foundation in late 2012 early 2013. The goal was to start a SaaS company in 6 months. I failed. This post isn’t about that failure though. I was asked a question about software testing…

  • Rules Every Tester Wants Developers To Follow

    Was working on a project where every other checkin would break some test, and it wasn’t because of bugs. Test where failing because of changes to UX, element id’s, paths, etc. Could feel that people where losing confidence in our automated testing. I use to feel like some software developers where trying to make me…

  • You’re Still A Martial Artist

    Went to a job fair last week to recruit interns. There where 4 different areas DevOps, Help Desk, Software Development, & QA. Software Development had the most traffic. The majority of Computer Science Majors had no interest in QA. I was a little hurt by that, but can you blame them?

  • Why Humans Should Write Human Readable Test

    If you’re reading this I’m going to assume that you’re human, and not some bot scraping the internet looking for it’s next target. The majority of the time a human is going to be reading your automated test too. So why aren’t we writing test for the humans that will be reading it?