Ben Weese

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Testing with Postman: Variables

Sorry it has been a while but I recently moved job and house, so life has been hectic. Next we will discuss variables. There are a lot of different variables you can use like Collection, Environmental, path, and others. The main 2 I use are Environmental so that we can have different variables for Dev, […]

From Manual to Automation

Return of QA Hipster I started my QA Journey back in 2013 and it has been a crazy ride to get to where I am today. As unique as my story might be there are many out there who started on a similar path. Sometimes breaking into tech is just finding that one job and […]

Common Sense, is a Super Power!

​This week the Ministry of Testing Bloggers club has decided on “What’s the non-technical skill that every tester should have, but most don’t seem to?” Being a tester move have a very technical mind. A lot of time with intelligent technical people they lack basic common sense. I have seen mountains made out of mole […]

Take a Look, It’s in a Book

This week the Ministry of Testing Bloggers Club is tackling “What non-testing focussed book do you wish you’d been given on your first day testing.” I have been working in the realm of manual testing for years. Over that time I have been given a lot of lead way and have been able to do […]

To QA or Not to QA That Is the Question

This sprint for the Ministry of Testing Bloggers Club the topic was “Critic some widely known/accepted concept in the testing community” Being that I have never really been a full fledged member of a testing community I don’t know what they widely accept. The one thing for years it was thought that testers were not […]

Give Yourself Time to Learn and Grow

Well, I am back after 2 years off, and I have a lot of new stuff to blog about. I have recently joined the Ministry of Testing’s Blogger’s Club, a group dedicated to blogging about testing by providing topics, blogging together on general topics, and being the motivation we all need. I hope with their support […]

My last Post

I worked on this site and blogging about testing for 10 months and it was great to see it grow and to see everyone reading and responding to what I had to offer. This was a great learning experience and I would not give it away for anything in the whole world. The reason I […]

Taking a break

Lately I have had some things happen in my personal life that I have not been able to keep up with all my side projects. I will be back up running as soon as I can and may even be next week. But this week I am taking a break to let my personal issues […]

5 QA GIFs

So I have reached my limit for uploaded Gifs, awesome I know. So here are links to the Gifs. When a new build comes out with fresh features to check What your family hears when you explain your day When you hit and unexpected bug when testing When you reproduce a complicated bug When you […]