Ben Weese

Author: Ben Weese

  • Exploratory Testing Misconception

    So not to long ago James Bach posted these 2 blogs, Exploratory Testing 3.0 and History Definitions of ET. If you have not read them you should. They tell of the history of Exploratory Testing from the beginning to the now…

  • Context Driven Testing

    James Bach stated “Obviously, CDT is not the only paradigm. There are others. Obviously, I think CDT is the only reasonable one,” on twitter during UTest’s Tweets from James Bach. He also said “Context-Driven Testing means learning your craft, so that…

  • Nebraska.Code() Day 3

    So I have 12 pages of notes I was going to go over and then for Monday I was going to go over ATDD. However a lot is going on so this will be my Monday post and I will…

  • Nebraska.Code() Day 1 & 2

    This is blog is happening because I have went to Nebraska Code Conference the last couple days and will go again tomorrow. There is just so much to cover that it had to be posted as I was there and…

  • Online Code Schools

    So in my quest to be the best QA Team Lead I could be I have been relearning coding. I started out studying Software Engineering in College and took 2 years of java, 3 semesters of C, one semester of…

  • Transitioning to a more agile testing

    So when I started at my current company I started in support calling and talking to clients and fixing various issues. I worked my way up to taking tougher clients then eventually moved over to become a Quality Assurance Analyst.…

  • Scripted vs Exploratory, The Battle

    So a big debate that is heard a lot is whether to use Exploratory testing or Scripted. Exploratory testing is where you go in and you search the app specifically looking for bugs. You are going to search anywhere and…

  • Pair Testing

    A while ago I read an article on the future of agile testing. When reading through I saw this thing called Pair Testing so I looked it up and found a good article at this link. This is when the…

  • 5 Stages of QA…

    When working in QA you will receive tickets submitted by clients, support, or various other people. It is your job to go through them using these 5 steps. Receive (the ticket) Verify (that it is a problem) Justify the Problem…

  • Hunting the White Whale

    Sometimes when testing software you will come across the dreaded white whale. In my case this was a crash that only I have reproduced, but our clients were hitting it quiet often. Every time I hit the crash it seemed…