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

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

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

For Christ­mas of 2015, Carl and I decid­ed to plan a year of dates. We alter­nat­ed months and planned an activ­i­ty around town (or at least with­in dri­ving dis­tance), try­ing to keep the over­all bud­get down, but allow­ing for a… Read moretwo years of dates

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 like my employ­er, and I like my new career as a soft­ware tester, and though I strive to be excel­lent, when I leave work, I do my best not to think about it until the next day. I’ll some­times… Read morefind­ing pur­pose