Joe and I have just released our first podcast of Test Reactor. You can find it at testreactor.com or for iTunes people at https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/test-reactor/id990641984 . The first episode does not have much test related stuff but the future podcast will.
So you are a Software tester by trade but how does that affect the rest of your life. Well weather you know it or not you test everything you are given to see if it meets your standards. Personally every time i get a new item or software I test it out for Quality. That […]
So I started out and still work today testing desktop software using no coding. There are still jobs out there that require you to be a user and test their desktop apps. With an ever growing and changing industry is this still viable? Currently it is viable but with everything changing into apps and websites […]
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 and how the meaning has changed over the years. So the misconception is that most […]
When you get a new build and it crashes on login Exploratory testing when you hit a new bug When you hit a new bug that was not there before Testing a new feature without unit test When you get a new feature to test
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 you know how to solve problems that arise in it.” When asked about other schools […]
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 not be regaling you with every awesome moment I had. Instead I will cover the […]
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 while it is all fresh rather then waiting a and posting everything on Monday. Don’t […]
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 C++, and one semester of web based programing. That is somewhere around 27 credit hours. […]
When you see a bug in another software When your build constantly crashes When a bug gets sent back as not a bug or by design Pair testing with the dev and you find an awesome bug When you reproduce a difficult bug on first try