TestToTester

" A picture is worth a thousand words" - well, who has not heard that before but as with most things simple we might not give it its due because it's easily understood.  In our team we have a pretty straight forward process to deal with bugs. I demo it to the dev, and add a sticky on the board for it to be fixed. Most of the time the fixes take priority, so we can move the stories across. It works well for our context. Today, when working from home I wanted to share a bug with my dev - list view loosing placeholder image data on scroll on android. I typed the steps to reproduce on slack and then followed it with the below image  The team loved it... ( Yea, you read that right! dev's loved the bug report ;) It was fun and made the point clear...  I bet it would look stunning on the kanban board compared to the long list of words on a sticky...

We have delivered over 20 builds to production in the last 12 months. (avg 15 stories per sprint) We have no show stoppers or major issues reported by end users. We have customised sprint + kanban to suit our team dynamics. We believe that a story is Done/Ready for sign-off when it's DEV + Test complete We pair up with Business for Story Kick-offs, grooming cards, demos, etc We pair up with Dev's for tech tasks, API tests & support/bug investigations We pair up with Dev Ops for infrastructure testing, build, deployment process We test functionality, integration, migration, UX, localisation, regression And YES We test most of our cards MANUALLY ( SBTM approach). to be continued...

I have never bothered to write about this or talk about it because I sincerely feel there are enough papers explaining the benefits and drawbacks of each (Just look at the Test Automation?? widget on the blog). But for some reason this discussion keeps coming back in different forms L First it was the winrunners vs manual, and then came the QTP wave now it’s the web drivers, jasmine, cucumber/spec flows, etc etc.  vs manual? Really? It’s amazing how much test automation has moved on from bulky huge licensing structure into light weight, open source collaborative setup. The new set of tools are fantastic and business facing which we as testers always craved for. On the other end manual testing has moved on from writing/running bunch of lines of steps in QC, to planning, testing, learning and interpreting tests in exploratory sessions. Both at least to me have its merits, traps and limitations and I feel identifying and learning how to overcome them is what will...

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Inspiration? The magic that transpired at   Skills Matter   on 23-Mar-2011 when   WeekNightTesting went LIVE   with   Markus Gaertner   facilitating from Hamburg,   LisaCrispin   from San Francisco and   Mike   and I from London has inspired us to take WeekNight Testing out of the chat app to LIVE testing sessions. How do we plan to do it? Testers meet at a common location in the evening at around 17:45 UK Time with their laptops and energy to test, question, learn, discuss about testing. At 18:00 the test session facilitator announces a testing challenge that is time boxed for an hour. Testers have the freedom to pair up with other testers or work on their own to meet the challenge. Testers can also use any test tools, strategies, and ideas to accomplish the challenge. At the end of the hour we take a 5 min break and jump into a discussion session (de-briefing) for the n...

At my workshops I ask testers to guess “the greatest testing tool available to them”. Any guesses on the replies? Every popular tool in the market right from the bulkiest most expensive to open source tools out there. Some times I am happy to hear Google. I then pop this poster up by Andy Glover and the group goes oooh ya! And most of the times followed by giggles.  I love this poster because I believe the human body is the greatest testing tool available to us, our eye the most useful. We find most bugs by observing, analysing, comparing by the tool eye. How fascinating isn’t it? But can our eye overpower other senses? See it to believe it! Thanks to Tom Roden , my colleague for sharing this amazing video.