the home of Rachel Kibler
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 attended the Conference of the Association for Software Testing (CAST) two weeks ago in Cocoa Beach, Florida. It was a fantastic learning and networking experience over four days, and I’m still reeling a little bit. I started with a… Read moreCAST retrospective
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
We have a new tester on my team. I recruited her, and I talked her up to my team. They liked her, and I was excited when it worked out. She’s not new to testing, but she’s new to mobile,… Read morelanguage and learning
I had a realization when I started my current job: I don’t want to be indispensable. For a very long time, I wanted to be indispensable, where things would come to a halt if I weren’t there or if I… Read moreindispensability and value
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
I joined a team at work that has moved to agile from waterfall. It was a high-performing team in waterfall, and now the team is figuring out how to get that same level of performance while doing agile. It’s been… Read morea transition to agile