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The economics of testing
Having recently read "The undercover economi…

Senior QA Lead Tester Analyst Engineer
What's in a name? One of the biggest bugbears…

Dear Evil Tester: a review
For Christmas, alongside the socks, CDs and puzzl…

Retro(pers)pective
I do love a good retro. For those of you not luck…

It all comes out in the wash
When a test process is not working as you expect …

Veni vidi didici - shortcuts to success
There are many ways of picking up a new skill, wh…

Say it loud I test and I'm proud
For Christmas, one of my presents was the excelle…

The unopinionated tester
In a recent standup I was (flippantly) accused of…

Pesky pesticides
One of the best lessons I ever learnt from the IS…

Empty chairs at empty tables
The departure of a work colleague, whether they a…

To err is human
Recent events on a project brought this snippet o…

Testing is a funny business
A colleague recently messaged me shortly after I&…

Barriers to automation
Test automation - the solution to all our problem…

Priority call
Defect found, fire up the bug tracker!
Summary: Ni…

Getting the best out of your bug tracker
I've used a wide variety of test management s…

Looking forward
Sometimes when testing, a question will arise an…

Modern testing principles
I heard a podcast discussion recently on a really…

Spoiler alert
If developers could test I'd be out of a job …

My humble estimation
I'll raise my hand to this one - a couple of …