Coding the right thing: not just for developers
This tweet came across my feed recently and I emphatically agreed: It occurs to me, however, that we as testers sometimes don’t see ourselves falling into the category of needing …
Should All Testers Be Automators? The Argument I’m Tired Of, But I Argue Anyway
It has come up recently, in several conversations – what is the ideal tester skillset on a team? Some folks are in the “make them all automators” camp, or “teach …
Agile and Beyond 2015 recap
Storified here: https://storify.com/g33klady/agile-and-beyond-2015-recap Please forgive the giant image at the top – I can’t find a way to change it 🙁 It’s a loooooong post, a couple hundred tweets, so be …
KalamazooX 2015 recap
I put together my tweets and thoughts of KalamazooX 2015 on Storify here: https://storify.com/g33klady/kalamazoox-2015-recap HilaryI’m Hilary Weaver, also known as g33klady on the Internets. I’m a Senior Quality Engineer working remotely …
Introversion, social anxiety, and conferences
Just a warning that this is gonna get pretty honest and open about my introversion and depression. I’ve touched a bit on my social anxiety before, but not like this. …
So much failure. So many lessons to learn.
As my CEO has said, it’s ok to fail as long as you learn from it. So I’m analyzing this gigantic failure to try to get as much knowledge from …
Same place, new adventures
Note: I’m not going to address the “QA” terminology thing here – we call our software testers “QA” where I work, but this isn’t about that. Sorry – we can …
Why user groups and networking are important
Starting a user group is probably the biggest challenge I’ve taken upon myself in a long time. Getting sponsorship and paying for it, finding a place to have it and …
On being a (not so newbie) speaker
A few months ago, I received an email from someone that attended my very first conference talk, at QA or the Highway in February. They were from $Company, and lead …
Testers meet up in Detroit – let’s do this!
Hey all – let’s get this going. If you’re interested in speaking – either full session, leading a workshop, or doing a lightning talk, let me know. I’ll get started …