I had a great conversation with David Giard on his show, Technology and Friends, the other week and he asked a question that I’ve been thinking about since. “Tell me about the code that’s in QA and testing” – I answered briefly in the podcast, but have been thinking more and more about what kind …
TL;DR When people ask me how I got back into coding after years away, my answer is essentially to have a project you can use to either start or add to (either production code or tests), find videos/trainings on the changes since you last coded, and don’t be afraid to just write some code and …
I haven’t posted on this site since December, 2022. A few big things happened since then: I got divorced in March 2023 (it was already happening by that last post I wrote, I just didn’t include it) I gave my first keynote, at Romanian Testing Conference in Cluj-Napoca, Romania in June 2023 I continued work …
Yesterday, I was finally able to give my talk “Socializing for Heuristics: How Social Media Made Me a Better Tester (and Human)” at Targeting Quality 2022 in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada. I talked about it in my last post Diversifying Heuristics with Social Media and I’m so glad I was finally able to give the talk! At the …
I’ve had a talk rejected a few times this year that I *really* want to give somewhere, so I thought I’d blog about some of the ideas I had for it. This will help me to work through some of it, as well as hopefully generate some interest! I talked through some of this during …
I’m excited to participate in the third C# Advent Calendar (my 2017 post was on combining UI and API automation with RestSharp and Selenium, and my 2018 post was about using the NUnit TestCaseData feature with your RestSharp tests to put a ton of tests in one) – you can check out the rest of …
I should have gotten a colonoscopy today. My dad had colo-rectal cancer, my brother had some pre-cancerous stuff, so I thought it’d behoove me to get checked. But what, you ask, does this have to do with software and testing? Read on, my friend. Read on. About 10 years ago I found out that I’m …
Wow that was difficult! Back on May 6th, I announced the contest for a Pro Ministry of Testing Dojo membership. I was inspired by Kristine Corbus, but was stunned that she only got 4 responses when she did this! I got SIXTY responses! Some squeaked in after the deadline, but I let them in anyway 😀 Applicants …
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about how fortunate I am, and I’ve been looking for ways to pay back the community for what it has given me. I was inspired by Kristine Corbus to do a #PayItForward with a Pro Ministry of Testing Dojo Membership, so here it is! Also inspired by Kristine, if you …
It’s hard for me to think about 2018 with fondness. It went to shit before the halfway mark, and it’s really hard to think about any positives. But I know a lot of good stuff happened, I just need to take an actual look back rather than getting stuck in the bad shit (which is …