Software Testing and Development Blog Posts

TLDR; push back, ask questions, and if all else fails - plan it as a manageable set of tasks

At SyncHerts January Meetup I presented a 5 minute Lightning Talk.

The Lighting Talk

SyncHerts January 2017 Meetup

This is the first time I’ve been able to attend a SyncHerts Meetup, which is one of the ‘just outside’ London, but ‘close enough’ to home, that I should be able to attend more regularly.

I’ll be presenting a 5 minute (with max 7 slides) talk on “Automating Tactically vs Stragically”.

Looking forward to talking, drinking ‘soft drinks’ because I’ll be driving, and networking.

I spoke at the Test Automation Guild on January 2017 and present “If you want to automate, you learn to code”.

If you want to automate, you learn to code, and you learn to code well.

“Automate” doesn’t mean “Automate Testing” it means “Automate part of your test process”.

You need to learn to code to do that with the most options open to you.

We’ll look at some ‘we do this alot’ and ‘we want to automate’ activities which we can use tools for. But we’ll also see that we are limited by the tools.

I believe that everyone has a unique and personal test process. Also, when we accept this, we can grow our testing skills further and faster than if we pursue the traditional path of learning a common body of knowledge.

An exercise in JavaScript console hacking.

TLDR; Start emulating people, use your job to learn, keep training, identify other people’s strategies, experiment to see what works for you, make your own tools, harness your uniqueness.

TLDR; Happy New Year - And all the best for 2017 - resolve to make changes every day - don’t rely on a single point in the year.

TLDR; I avoided creating a definition of software testing for a long time because I thought it would constrain me. Instead I built a model of what I did. Eventually I generalised it to a ‘definition’ - “Testing is building and comparing models of a system to the system.”

TLDR; Rather than pursue viral marketing millions, I have a released a new application for you to use for experimenting with exploratory testing, techical web testing, and JavaScript hacking. You can find it at eviltester.github.io/TestingApp/apps/testwith/version/1/testwith.html

TLDR; Everyone can tap into humour when they are themselves and with their friends. Can you respect your work peers enough to be yourself with them and tell hard truths using humour when necessary?