If you’re a tester who wants to get up to speed on coding to become a test automation engineer, don’t just start learning to code; start by learning about source control, a methodology for tracking […]
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Modelling a unit of your system
Sunshine, zebras and great conversations Over the last few days I’ve been in South Africa for Lets Test, held on a fantastic country retreat near Johannesburg. I facilitated a session called a ‘Testers Guide to […]
Overcome painful dependencies with improved adjacent testability
We had done it: We had built a testable system. We achieved high observability through monitoring, logging and alerting. We instituted controllability by using feature flags. We understood the build through pairing and cross-discipline-generated acceptance […]
Going beyond "how are we going to test this?"
Testability is a really important topic for the future of testing. So much so that I believe that it’s a really, really strong area for a tester to diversify into to remain relevant and have […]
Why do Testers become Scrum Masters?
It was late and I was stuck on a train, so I pondered on the question of why do testers often (in my experience) become Scrum Masters. Its a very dear question to me, as […]
