During a chat about various topics, Mark Winteringham asked me ‘what is the impact of testability on what and where you can automate?’ First things first, the main means of increasing testability is to do […]
Reviewing test code together for better production code
Recently, I had a chat with Mark Winteringham about a couple of testing topics. Seeing as I made some notes to prepare, I thought they could be converted into a blog. In this blog I […]
45 at 45
As of about 0100 on Sunday 20th August 2023, I was 45 years old. This isn’t a post about feeling old, I’m happy to say that I don’t. In fact I’m happier and healthier than […]
(Too) Great Expectations
I’m a big video games fan. I follow stories about the development of games with great interest. Provides a different angle to software development as I know it. Do you remember when we used to […]
Glue Work
I have made a career from doing glue work. I loved it. Bringing people together, caring about the customer journey, facilitating planning and retrospectives, crafting user stories and the like. It really makes you stand […]
My First Project Blocking Bug
When I first became a tester, the company I worked for had found one of the many ways of building software that encouraged bugs in their thousands of all shapes and sizes. Quality was someone […]
How I do exploratory testing
Wayne Roseberry posted the other day about how few testing blogs are about testing. I mean there are loads of other skills around testing that need to be explored, but I take his point about […]
Remind Me Again…
I love a timely reminder. I was at an WRK Digital event on Thursday in Leeds where Katja Obring talked about shifting testing left. She was excellent by the way, great delivery, knowledgeable about quality […]
Rabbit R1, Large Action Models and Testing
Intro I had something of a revelation the other day. Like many of us, I have used Large Language Models in work and out of curiosity. Claude is my LLM of choice, as I enjoy […]
Diagram Industries 