Software Testing and Development Blog Posts

Updated 2023/07/30 to include talk recording

Open Quality Conference 2020

The Open Quality Conference was an online conference based around Open Sourced Tooling.

The videos were pre-recorded with some live sessions during the day.

This recording was released free to Patreon supporters in 2020 And can be found on Patreon and as part of the Patreon Exclusive “Get Your Message Out - blogging” course

Official Blurb

In this talk we will provide examples of using Github, Netlify, Hugo, Heroku, GitPages, Gist and a host of other sites and tools to share your knowledge, and expand your skillset and experience as you do so. You don’t have to share code to take advantage of the open source hosting. You don’t need to be able to code to do this.

TLDR: Code Coverage can help with code review when we focus the coverage metrics on the code we want to review and format it to support coverage metric analysis.

In this podcast I discuss a UK government guidance document on exploratory testing.

TLDR; Release of my open source API Workshops.

I was asked how I might go about automating an online calculator application. I have a calculator app of my own so I was interested in comparing the two apps and experimenting with a canvas based JS App.

In this podcast I discuss How to recruit testers: the job spec, and the audition process.

TLDR; Unit Testing and Code Coverage can lead to emotive discussions. These are personal lessons learned around Unit Testing and TDD. Keep things simple. Keep refactoring. View Test and Main as symbiotic.

This post and video discusses what we can learn from the challenge POST /challenger 201.

I spoke at the Online BrowserStack Breakpoint conference.

Much of the automating we do to support testing involves detecting change. Once our tests pass, they fail when the system changes and the automated execution alerts us to the change. There are other ways that automating can help us.

Much of “Test Automation” falls into the set of “Automated Execution to Detect Change”, in this post I will explain what that means and provide some examples.