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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…
Writing a good bug
What does it take to write a good bug? There is a lot of time where a bug comes in from a somewhere else and you have no idea what they are talking about or what was tried. How can…
Damn Bugs, Overlook, Workflowy, and Trello
Damn bugs was founded by Crowd Soured Testing as a online tracker for bugs. You start by creating a Organization and then you have projects. The projects can then have all types of bugs. This is mostly a web based…
Why Excel is so Wildly Used For test plans…
Over much of my research I found that a lot of people, to this day use excel for their test plans. There are articles posted all over about how to best use excel. For example this link, talks about how to…