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I’ve been at my current company for over three months now. I got off to a rocky start, but I’m happy at 1-800 Contacts now. My team is great—they care about the work we do, they are data-driven, they come… Read moreexperiments in rework
I was talking with a newer tester the other day, and the impression that I got was that there was a lot of insecurity around their testing. They felt like they didn’t have a right to say that they found… Read moretesting concerns
I wrote about stress cases a couple months ago (http://racheljoi.com/2019/stress-cases-pt-1/), and since then, I’ve thought a lot more about stress cases and given a keynote at Agile Testing Days USA about them. (It was a great conference, and I’ll write… Read morestress cases, pt. 2: peppy messaging
I was in Reef Migration, a virtual reality experience for the Vive, and it got me thinking about testing virtual reality. (A video of Reef Migration is here.) Reef Migration is one of three underwater VR experiences in TheBlu, and… Read morevirtual reality testing (stay tuned)
Stress cases acknowledge the human element of using our software. Often, we say that something is an “edge case” or a “corner case”, which really ends up meaning that we don’t want to fix it or won’t fix it. That’s… Read morestress cases, pt. 1
Last week, I finally did what I’ve been wanting to do for months (years) and engaged in pair testing three times with some differing results. what is pair testing? Pair testing is a lot like pair programming, where you have… Read morepair testing adventures
Last year, I wrote some thoughts about the benefits of manual testing. The posts are here and here. Now that I’ve been on an agile team for over a year, and doing some automation, I think (hope) I have some… Read moreautomation thoughts – an update
I may have mentioned a few months ago that I’m training a tester who is new to mobile. We’re four months in, and I’m surprised to find that I’m still answering (many) questions daily. Language does play an important role,… Read moretraining a tester
I’ve been delving into the more technical side of testing, that of using tools to exercise code precisely rather than galumphing through UI, which really is my preferred method. Our mobile app uses a lightweight service to connect to the… Read moreSOAP testing and finding the right assertions
In the past month, I’ve done two trainings on software testing: ASTQB’s Mobile Foundations course, and Satisfice’s Rapid Software Testing Applied course. The difference between them was marked. Like the SQE training I reviewed earlier and subsequent ISTQB test for… Read moretesting trainings – a comparison