Testing

Are you stable, or complacent? Is it time to experiment yet?

TLDR; If you are not sure that you should experiment with new techniques then find ways to monitor the domain first, you might be able to learn from someone else’s experience.

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When things are stable, and they are going well, a hard question to answer is “Is it time to experiment?”.

How to improve your software testing skills by following Isaac Newton's strategies

5 minute read - Books Testing

How to improve your software testing skills, by following these strategies, that’s how. Based on a quick book recommendation - Isaac Newton by James Gleick I want to explain how we can learn lessons from his approach to his work and career.

How to use your testing skills to bag a SNES Classic Mini Pre-Order

6 minute read - Testing Essays

TLDR; Identify Oracles, automate observation of changes, understand GUI/Mobile differences, harness tool support.

Quaere, Heuristics, Mnemonics, and Acronyms

3 minute read - Testing Essays

Don’t limit yourself to a set of attributes and words, seek more, develop strategies for identifying new concepts and ways of exploring them for then you have manifested the spirit of Quaere.

A Quick Intro To BookMarkLets

3 minute read - Testing Tools Technical Testing JavaScript

TLDR; Bookmarklets are an easy way to have custom javascript to support your testing that sync across browsers.

Input -> Process -> Output - I test Systems

4 minute read - Testing

TLDR; I test systems, not processes.

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