CodeMash 2017 Recaps
Another CodeMash here and gone. I got in around 450 tweets this year – seemed like I didn’t attend as many sessions. Here are the recaps (via Storify) for the …
Category: Testing
Using SQL Databases and REST together in Integration Automation with C# and NUnit
EDIT: One mindful reader noted that I should be using good practices to protect my code from SQL Injection. So there are some updates below, and the code is also …
She used this one neat trick to model JSON as classes in C#, and her audience was stunned!
I recently presented my talk Testing RESTful Web Services for the first time at the QL Technology Conference in Detroit. In this talk, I cover why we should test web …
CAST 2016 Recaps
CAST 2016 was held in Vancouver, BC. This was my first time to Vancouver, but I love the Pacific Northwest, so I was pretty sure I was going to love …
Suggested (to me) Books on Leadership
I recently tweeted for suggestions on books about self leadership, and leadership in general – especially books that personally helped people. I wasn’t looking for “I heard this book is …
CodeMash 2016
CodeMash 2016 was awesome, as per usual. This year, I think we had a much larger turnout of testers than before. We even had some testing related open spaces! I …
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 …
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 …