Saeed Gatson

Author: Saeed Gatson

  • The Two Paths You Can Take To Learn A Skill

    This is an excerpt from my post on Finding What To Learn Next which I wrote for the Simple Programmer blog.

  • Why You Should Treat Your Career Like A Startup

    Why You Should Treat Your Career Like A Startup

    For the last 40 – 50 years careers paths worked like an escalator.   You started at the bottom and slowly worked your way up to the top of that ladder. You went to college, got a job, and didn’t leave until you made it to the top. While I was in college, 2006 –…

  • The Software Testing Ice Cream Cone

    Most companies only focus on manual testing at the start. Down the road they jumping head first into UI automation. This might seem like the best approach, but focusing on just one area of testing can lead you down the wrong path. There’s a downside to only having Manual & UI automated test. You end up…

  • 7 Common Automated Nightly Regression Failures

    If you’re like me, one of the first things you do in the morning is check the results of the previous nights automated test runs. You site at your desk, cross your fingers, open up Jenkins, and hope to see a bunch of blue dots (PASS). When a build fails it’s time to go into debugging mode. Automated…

  • 6 Things You Should Do After Finding A Bug

    On September 9, 1947 the first instance of an actual computer but was found. At 3:45 p.m., Grace Murray Hopper records the first computer bug in her log book as she worked on the Harvard Mark II. The problem was traced to a moth stuck between a relay in the machine, which Hopper duly taped…

  • Over 30 More Types Of Software Test

    This is the final post in the types of software testing series. You can view the other 40 types of software testing in the following post: 20 Types of Software Testing, and  2o More Types Of Software Testing.

  • What Is A Software Developer In Test?

    “So what would you say you do?” It’s a common question when meeting someone new. However I was blind sided by the timing of this question. You see, I was on the phone with a recruiter who was fairly new to the game. We where going over my resume when I told here about a…

  • Hello World!

    Hello world! This is an experiment. An experiment to try to help others.

  • Real Developer To Tester Conversations

    This joke was sent around the office a few days ago. Thought I would share here. Developer : I’m not able to replicate this issue. It’s working fine on my machine. So lets close this bug. Tester : I understand that it’s working fine on your machine, but we aren’t going to deliver your machine to our customers. Let’s…