Software Testing and Development Blog Posts

TLDR; I can view Problem Solving as Problem Identification, Problem Solution Construction, Solution Evaluation and I can map that on to Software Development to help me communicate in normal language.

TLDR; A career in Software Testing is not an ’easy’ ride, if you are not careful then you can get stuck. But if you work at it then you can make a difference to your company and the community at large.

I present a keynote at the internal Rabobank testing conference in Utrecht. Covering: Agility, Agile, Cybernetics, Integration testing, Technical Testing, Automating, and more…

Title: How to Test with Agility

• Keynote at the internal Rabobank Testing Conference on Feb 15th 2018 in Utrecht.

Synopsis:

My aim here is to tell you that I learned to work with Agility rather than work with the Agile Rituals and Definitions. And I learned to trust that working with Agility trumps Rituals and Definitions the hard way. Because sticking to rituals and definitions led to rigidity, rather than agility.

Presented as a UKStar 2018 webinar. I show how to void the use of Flaky to describe intermittent failure for your automated execution. Common causes of intermittent execution and some solutions.

TLDR; Testability is for humans. Automatability (Automatizability) is for applications.

Do you make New Year Resolutions? I set goals that I believe in, then create work plans, and adjust my expectations based on what I do, and I do change my mind based on experience. But I also, use my testing skills to do all of that.

I think most people intuitively know the difference between an MVP (Minimum Viable Product) and a POC (Proof of Concept).

But I think that sometimes people start work on an MVP when they should be working on a POC. And sometimes people don’t stop after a POC, they keep adding more features and continue proving more concepts, hoping that they will end up with an MVP.

TLDR; Migrating from Storify to Twitter, semi automatically with a simple JavaScript Snippet and Bookmarklet.

In this post I provide the code for my video showing how I migrated from Storify to Twitter Moments.

Resources are a very useful concept in Java. They are essentially files in the project which are compiled into the .jar

Java also has commands for finding them .getResource and reading them .getResourceAsStream

Very Handy.

But, they can be hard to wrap your head around. As evidenced by my own experiences trying to use them and the number of queries on stack overflow.

TLDR; A list of books that was shown in shaky cam on the What is Agile Testing video.