What Do We Really Mean When We Say Quality?
How does your team or organization measure quality? People often equate testing to good quality or ‘quality assurance’, but if you have good testing practices, does that mean you have a good quality product? Many teams measure process quality and don’t realize they forget about...
Enlightening In Testing
Something about knowledge. What you cannot know E. W. Dijkstra expressed this principle of testing in 1969: Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs. Dijkstra was discussing testing with researchers focused on finding ways to prove that code was working. They were in...
Addressing The Risk Of Exploratory Testing Part 2
In my experience, by far the biggest risk to the successful implementation of Exploratory Testing (ET) is the complete misunderstanding of what is meant by the term. In this series of articles, I share the concerns that have arisen whilst implementing ET and some potential...
Addressing The Risk Of Exploratory Testing Part 3
In my experience, by far the biggest risk to the successful implementation of Exploratory Testing (ET) is the complete misunderstanding of what is meant by the term. In this series of articles, I‘ve shared the concerns that have arisen whilst implementing ET and some potential...
Addressing The Risk Of Exploratory Test Part 1
In my experience, by far the biggest risk to the successful implementation of Exploratory Testing is the complete m also trying it for the first time. Three years ago I was the first test manager in my company (to my knowledge) to formally introduce Exploratory...
Having Fun with your Testing Team
If you feel that your testing team has a low level of interaction and motivation, it is time to introduce some activities that could help you to exchange knowledge, share experiences and strengthen the links between team members. In this article, I will tell you...
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...