The term bug bash has been around for decades yet does not seem to have a formal definition. It is widely used and understood by many people, yet in two distinct ways. Over the years, I’ve participated in and organized two different types of bug bashes with different goals and results. A bug bash could refer to one of two activities: Both types of bug bashes have a few things in common: they are time-limited,… The post How to use bug bashes to build better products and stronger teams appe...| Association for Software Testing
I recently had another interesting conversation about testing. I’ve had this discussion many times throughout my career: What is software testing? Or perhaps more specifically, what isn’t testing?| QuestionAble by Pejgan
Anyone who has been in the software industry for a while has probably come across jokes, memes, or comments about the strained relationships between testers and developers. Testers get frustrated and complain about developers saying things like, “It works on my machine.” Meanwhile, developers dismissively joke that testers are people who couldn’t make it as developers because they’re too rigid and prone to thinking up new problems and unlikely edge cases. Some people may read that...| Association for Software Testing
Before I started working in software testing, I had never heard of heuristics. Over the years, I kept hearing the word “heuristics,” but I never really understood what they were or how to use them. The first time I deliberately researched the topic was for a workshop in 2019. Before this, I thought they were a fancy term used by a specific school of testing, but I learned that heuristics are a well-known and well-used concept in fields like psychology and mathematics, first introduced b...| QuestionAble by Pejgan
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In case you haven’t read about my pair-blogging idea before, a short summary from the first post:| QuestionAble by Pejgan
How you can (should?) use them to guide your work| QuestionAble by Pejgan
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What happens when the forces are not aligned| QuestionAble by Pejgan
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Can we, are we legally allowed to and… should we?| QuestionAble by Pejgan
This is a two-part blog post (or maybe the format is more of an article…) about what the equivalence of code tests and take-home assignments can look like when you start interviewing for manager roles. In the last half we looked at case studies and dilemmas. When I published that, I got some excellent questions that I’d like to start off with addressing. “Would this same approach to manager interviews also apply to leadership interviews”. My short answer is: Technically you can use ...| QuestionAble by Pejgan
When I started out as a developer in the last millennium (yeah ok in 1999…) – my first few jobs were landed just based on interviews. We sat down and conversed about who I was, what the company was looking for and how I might fit into that. That does not seem to be the norm for people starting out today. You go through technical interviews, coding tests or home assignments and maybe even different types of personality and/or logic tests. As you grow as a developer (sorry, engineer seems t...| QuestionAble by Pejgan
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The organiser, program committee and program chair perspective| QuestionAble by Pejgan
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In May 2022 the first Agile Testing Days Open Air took place, and there Samuel Nitsche and I premiered our workshop “How to make meetings not suck”. This post is my reflection on the process of creating the workshop and a slight summary of the workshop itself.| QuestionAble by Pejgan
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Once upon a time there was a test lead who didn’t believe in agile. She used to nod politely when teams talked about reducing waste, sprints and small deliveries. Then she turned around and did it The Right Way. Which, to her defense, worked. Her projects were typically on time, upheld a great quality standard and the launches usually were calm and fearless affairs. | QuestionAble by Pejgan