Prioritise we Must
Over on the Agile in the Ether Slack instance one of the Ethernets recently asked: MoSCoW: Does anybody have a simple way of expl...| qahiccupps.blogspot.com
Over on the Agile in the Ether Slack instance one of the Ethernets recently asked: MoSCoW: Does anybody have a simple way of expl...| qahiccupps.blogspot.com
The theme at LLEWT this year was Rules and constraints to ensure better quality. My experience report concerned a team I'd been on for several years which developed (bottom-up) a set of working practices that we called team agreements. The agreements survived "natural" variation such as people leaving and joining and even some structural reorganisation which preserved most of the team members but changed the team's responsibilities or merged in a few people from a d...| qahiccupps.blogspot.com
The theme at LLEWT this year was Rules and constraints to ensure better quality. My experience report concerned a team I'd been on...| qahiccupps.blogspot.com
This week I listened to a Ministry of Testing podcast on exploratory testing . After the intros, as the panelists attempted in turn to giv...| qahiccupps.blogspot.com
It was my wedding anniversary recently. The picture at the top is the front of the card I got for my wife. Yeah, I know. Somehow she still loves me.I asked my family which bean out of the couple they thought I was and everyone chose the one on the left, including me. Surprised, I showed the picture to my work colleagues and they also unanimously went for the left-hand bean.| Hiccupps
Maaret Pyhäjärvi posted the quote above on LinkedIn a few weeks ago. It speaks strongly to me so I asked Maaret if she'd writ...| qahiccupps.blogspot.com
I attended LLEWT 2025 at the| Hiccupps
I'm been working on an application that will orchestrate data from multiple services. As the developers add clients for those services, th...| qahiccupps.blogspot.com
I've spoken to a couple of friends recently about testers they know who continually express a desire to "learn automation" and continually f...| qahiccupps.blogspot.com
We are generally not the target users of the software products we work on. That's not to say we never use our applications or that we have ...| qahiccupps.blogspot.com
My friend Mirek wrote an interesting post recently: Where Rust fits for me. In it, he made a hierarchy of the programming languages he reaches for on a regular basis and why he picks a particular one for any specific task. I'd summarise it crudely like this:| Hiccupps
The map is not the territory. You've heard this before and I've| Hiccupps
I recall a time where I was moved to dig up this aphorism and| Hiccupps
In simpler times you had to go out of your way to find useless motivational banalities. There'd be an aisle in the shops that you could ea...| qahiccupps.blogspot.com
If you've met me anywhere outside of a wedding or funeral, a snowy day, or a muddy field in the last 20 years you'll have seen...| qahiccupps.blogspot.com
I told you how much I love| Hiccupps
Kill it with Fire is by Marianne Bellotti is a truly awesome book about dealing with legacy systems. If you're in softw...| qahiccupps.blogspot.com
Kill it with Fire is ostensibly a book about legacy systems but is packed with good advice about managing any significant project. In one...| qahiccupps.blogspot.com
In a recent episode of the Vernon Richard show , testing's dynamic duo were inspired by Valentine's Day to talk about their love for our cra...| qahiccupps.blogspot.com
Whatever our workplace constraints, we have agency over our own actions and the choices we make impact us, those around us, and the wo...| qahiccupps.blogspot.com
Recently a few people have asked me how I test AI. I'm happy to share my experiences, but I frame the question more broadly, perhaps some...| qahiccupps.blogspot.com
This week I've been playing with altwalker , a model-based testing tool. To get the hang of it, I attempted to build a very simple model o...| qahiccupps.blogspot.com
My daughter's high school requires its students to have access to a laptop at home for school work. The school's trust is a Microsoft shop so her computer needs MS Teams to be installed locally and she has access to the online Office 365 su... The post HS MS BS appeared first on Association for Software Testing.| Association for Software Testing
In What We Know We Don't Know , Hillel Wayne crisply summarises a handful of research findings about software development, describes how the...| qahiccupps.blogspot.com
Some friends of mine are talking about starting to blog. They know why they want to blog, they have topics to blog about, and they are thoughtful, experienced, and eloquent enough that I have no doubt their writings would be worth reading.However.| Hiccupps
A couple of months ago, in Can You Hack It?, I wrote about how I increased the testability of a service by changing it in a way that allowed me to simulate the behaviour of one of its dependencies. With that in place I could force specific code paths to be followed and so explore different scenarios easily.| Hiccupps
You Ain't Gonna Need It, YAGNI. A helpful tool to remind us to carefully consider building no more than we need to solve the problem in front of us. I see it mostly applied to software development questions but the same tension between investment cost, flexibility, and eventual value applies elsewhere and it's on my mind because I am thinking about two very different experiences with internal process.Without going into too much depth, there was an ancient process that my team ran infrequently...| Hiccupps
A few months ago I stopped having therapy because I felt I had stabilised myself enough to navigate life without it. For the time being, a...| qahiccupps.blogspot.com
The Association for Software Testing is crowd-sourcing a book, Navigating the World as a Context-Driven Tester , which aims to provide ...| qahiccupps.blogspot.com
Last weekend I participated in the LLandegfan Exploratory Workshop on Testing (LLEWT) 2024, a peer conference in a small parish ...| qahiccupps.blogspot.com
This weekend I was at LLEWT 2024, a peer conference on Anglesey , north Wales, discussing communication. Given the day jobs of the par...| qahiccupps.blogspot.com
It was Father's Day recently and one of my daughters made me a card which I love for all sorts of reasons, not least because it says she see...| qahiccupps.blogspot.com
For over a year the roadworks near our house have been a riot of signage, inspiring me and my daughter to make silly songs using th...| qahiccupps.blogspot.com
The Association for Software Testing is crowd-sourcing a book, Navigating the World as a Context-Driven Tester , which aims to provide res...| qahiccupps.blogspot.com
The Association for Software Testing is crowd-sourcing a book, Navigating the World as a Context-Driven Tester , which aims to provide re...| qahiccupps.blogspot.com
One of my chores takes me outside early in the morning and, if I time it right, I get to hear a charming chorus of birdsong from the trees...| qahiccupps.blogspot.com
The Association for Software Testing is crowd-sourcing a book, Navigating the World as a Context-Driven Tester , which aims to provide ...| qahiccupps.blogspot.com
I have been pairing with a new developer colleague recently. In our last session he asked me "is this normal testing?" saying that he'd neve...| qahiccupps.blogspot.com
The Association for Software Testing is crowd-sourcing a book, Navigating the World as a Context-Driven Tester , which aims to ...| qahiccupps.blogspot.com
A few weeks ago, in A Good Tester is All Over the Place , Joep Schuurkes described a model of testing work based on three axes: do te...| qahiccupps.blogspot.com
The Association for Software Testing is crowd-sourcing a book, Navigating the World as a Context-Driven Tester , which aims to pro...| qahiccupps.blogspot.com
A long stretch of a major route into Cambridge is being widened at the moment. To facilitate the work, one of the road junctions near my...| qahiccupps.blogspot.com
