Shift left is a phrase often heard in software development. There are many ways you can do this. You can get testers involved at the story writing stage or get testers testing on ...

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Published on February 26, 2024 | 5 min read

In this post I am going to talk about monitoring and observability.Now what are monitoring and observability?Monitoring is defined as…..<span st...

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Published on January 29, 2024 | 6 min read

Feedback is important. In fact feedback is what helps us improve and enables us to make informed decisions at the correct time. For example imagine you are dr...

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Published on January 12, 2024 | 16 min read

Teams, we have all been on them. Some are good and some are bad. Some we never wan...

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Published on November 19, 2023 | 18 min read

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Published on November 12, 2023 | 9 min read

&nbsp;How do you know the software product your team produces is quality?<p class="ember-view reader-content-blocks__paragraph" ...

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Published on September 30, 2023 | 24 min read

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Published on August 18, 2023 | 28 min read

Company wide test strategies can often be very proceduraland rigid, which, in turn can lead to them not being followed as well as not utilisingthe full range of testing skills on a team. So, is there an alternative…? Thisarticle will look at why company tes...

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Published on July 10, 2023 | 17 min read

This blog post is in response to Challenge 7 of the #GivenWhenThenWithStyle blog post series with Gojko Adzic&nbsp;You can see what the challenge is here:<a href="https://specflow.org/blog/how-t...

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Published on August 09, 2020 | 2 min read

So this blogpost is in response to the weekly Specflow blog posts and challenges that have been written by Gojko Adzic.This weeks challenge was how would you rewrite or rephrase the below scenario:<span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #55606e; font-family: Mon...

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Published on June 28, 2020 | 3 min read

So testing Web Services&nbsp;and REST APIs is not something that I have regularly spent a great deal of time doing (although I have done some). However, a change to a customers requirements meant that I had the ...

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Published on October 29, 2019 | 6 min read

Log files are funny things. They&nbsp;can contain lots of useful information but they can also be a frustrating experience to understand and read.&nbsp;<span style="font-family: &quot;courier new&q...

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Published on July 08, 2019 | 7 min read

Now in my last blog post I talked about developer and tester walkthroughs. We have now been doing this for a while now and as with all new things you learn some lessons. Below is some advice that I can give to help you get the most of of...

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Published on June 03, 2019 | 4 min read

In this blog post I am going to talk through a new technique that I have started where me, the tester, and the developer, have a walkthrough of a change that the d...

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Published on April 23, 2019 | 6 min read

I've been meaning to do this for a while and I have finally got round to it...... So, there are loads of blog pos...

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Published on October 23, 2018 | 7 min read

In this post I am going to continue my servies on BenchMarkDotNet and I will explain what the various parameters do that are present in the simplejob attribute.&nbsp;<span style="font-family:...

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Published on September 28, 2018 | 5 min read

A bit of a change to my normal blog posts this time.... In the next few posts I will be talking about benchmark testing and in particular a NuGet package that allows you to run bench-marking tests in a .NET envi...

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Published on September 10, 2018 | 7 min read

Trust &amp; AutomationThe word trust, what springs to mind when you hear that word?<span style="font-family: A...

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Published on May 09, 2018 | 8 min read

Testing a new application can be a challenge and a little bit daunting.Below are a few useful tips that will hopefully help your testing, should you find yourself having a test an application that you have never used before. (These tips assume that you know about the applications ma...

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Published on February 21, 2018 | 5 min read

As a tester you may be asked this question…How long will the feature take to test?Recently I was asked this and I responded with something like this….I can test it in...

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Published on December 04, 2017 | 6 min read

Should testers learn to code?This question has been discussed on twitter quite frequently, and to be honest is getting a little boring. If testers want to learn to code then they should. If they don't then that's fine as well. This post is my humble opinion on whether as test...

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Published on September 11, 2017 | 5 min read

Its been a while since I have last blogged, its been hectic for one reason or another but I find myself with a bit more time so I can finish this series of blog posts.In this post I will complete the set of posts on testers perception. This post will describe ways ...

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Published on February 16, 2017 | 5 min read

Now if we are viewed as people on a project that do not 'build' anything, how can that effect our perception as testers?Lets start with a quick definition of perception"the way in which something is regarded, understood, or interpreted. "So the def...

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Published on October 16, 2016 | 4 min read

Now the inspiration for this series of blog posts was quiet uninspiring (and expensive). I was having some building work done on my house and this work involved screeding a floor. Basically this is when a sand/cement mix (more sand than cement) is laid on a floor to give a level finish so that it...

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Published on September 24, 2016 | 7 min read

In this blog post I will be talking about testing and conflicting information. Now I am a new Mac user and whilst I was playing around with my new toy a while ago I wanted to see how much storage I had left available. So I went into 'About this Mac' and bought ...

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Published on June 14, 2016 | 4 min read

It was said in jest whilst I was walking to my car after work. Me and a developer were having some tester/developer chat at the end of a hard day and he said jokingly : "Its testing - how hard can it be". That got me thinking........ how hard is testing? What challenges do we have testers have to...

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Published on April 02, 2016 | 6 min read

Before I start going through the lessons I have learnt whilst in the midst of writing a Selenium Framework I would like to say that I am by no means a 'Hard Core Developer'. By this I mean coding is not my day job and I am not up together with all of the latest coding practices and lingo. Yes I h...

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Published on February 05, 2016 | 7 min read

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Published on June 16, 2015 | 11 min read

Sat in front of my TV one boring week night a while back I noticed an Advert for Barclay's bank and something they called Barclay's Code Playground. So, intrigued I went on their website and found this:</...

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Published on March 30, 2015 | 2 min read

Having recently undertook the running of some training, I thought it would be beneficial to post some of the things I learnt from it. The training I was performing &nbsp;had around 8 trainees and latest 4 days and was for a system that is used in the Financial services industry.&nbsp;</...

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Published on January 03, 2015 | 3 min read

Now I have changed how I am going to structure these posts on habits. In this post I am going to talk about &nbsp;Keystone Habits.Now a keystone habit is:"A habit that has the power to st...

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Published on November 17, 2014 | 5 min read

"Habits are powerful, but delicate. They can emerge outside our consciousness, or can be deliberately designed. They often occur without our permission, but can be reshaped by fiddling with their parts. They shape our lives far more than we realize— they are so strong, in fact, that they cause ou...

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Published on July 29, 2014 | 4 min read

I am a creature of habit. I like to have my breakfast at work and go to the Gym on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.&nbsp;In fact we are all creatures of Habit, even though you may not think you are. A university researcher in 2006 found that more than 40% of the actions p...

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Published on July 17, 2014 | 0 min read

Now you may have found yourself in the same situation as me, theonly tester working on a particular project with the usual aggressive projecttimelines. Although this may seem daunting at ...

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Published on May 24, 2014 | 8 min read

Now as I tester I find Excel to be a key tool in my daily work life. It is flexible and can be used for many different purposes. My main use of it however,&nbsp;was for writing test cases. My test cases in excel would be quite detailed and would look something like this:<br /...

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Published on March 03, 2014 | 5 min read