Managing Multiple Passions
Are you just a Tester or a writer, painter & musician too? Harsha Bhogle in his book “Out of the Box – Watching the Game We Love” has a mention of Peter Roebuck who told the twin loves of his life: cricket and the English...
Book Review: “Impact Mapping” by Gojko Adzic
After I finished reading GojkoAdzic’s book ‘Impact Mapping’, here are some impressions this book left on me. Things that I liked: Look, Feel, and Style Being a magazine designer myself, I always try to keep the design easy to read and appealing enough to keep the...
Software Testing And The Art Of Staying In Present
When I first wrote an article on Soft skills that make a tester some years back, little did I capture the importance that the power of concentration plays in our profession. As I grew more in the professional life, I am beginning to get more...
VIP BOA – A Heuristic for Testing Responsive Web Apps
It can be quite challenging to test web applications that are built by using the responsive web design [1] (RWD) approach. This heuristic is designed to help anyone involved in that. Some test heuristics come with a mnemonic – which in this case is VIP...
Heuristics For Mushroom Picking (And Testing)
Mushroom picking has been part of my autumns since I can remember. At least here in Estonia our hunter-gatherer roots still run strong. Wandering around the forest with a bucket and knife in hand while enjoying the tranquillity and calm of a pine forest is...
Building QA Processes
Some context I began my journey at Talkdesk in October 2016, motivated by the big challenge of building a QA process, almost from scratch. From day one I could see that all my colleagues were wondering how I was going to tackle this challenge and...
Introducing Change In Organisation
Did you ever feel like being stuck in a hamster wheel? Doing the same work over and over again without any engagement? The job that you were happy to have and brought you joy, became… just a job that you had to do. Burnout is...
Announcing ConTEST NYC 2021
PRESS RELEASE January 31, 2021. New York City Test Masters Academy is proud to announce its famous conference ConTEST NYC 2021 in Virtual “Around the Globe” edition. ConTEST is exploring the role of software quality and testing in the context of the modern world. It...
How To Read A Difficult Book
Have you ever had trouble reading a book about testing, although you consider yourself a big reader, a passionate tester and a curious person? I have. I actually failed reading this particular book twice in the past two years. Well, maybe I didn’t fail reading...
Context-driven Approach for Testing Complex IoT Systems & Devices
The IoT story Since the internet of things (IoT) is very popular nowadays, this is a great opportunity to share some interesting experiences of testing complex IoT systems and devices. The idea of having all the devices around us wirelessly connected has been alive for...