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Hexagonal Architecture For Testers: Part 3
In this 3rd & final post on hexagonal architecture I’m going to try & wrap up my opinion on how we as Testers can be confident that a reduction in integration tests will not impact the quality...
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Kayaking – A Metaphor For Testing?
I’ve been thinking about testing a lot recently. I’ve also been thinking about kayaking (as always) & it got my grey matter working: Slalom canoeing / kayaking can likened to scripted tested &...
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Retrospectives – Maximise Your Mouth Hours
On the 40 strong team I’m currently working on, the format of one 1 hour retro every couple of weeks wasn’t working, so we tried out a new format. How do you run a retro with a team of 40 people? This...
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New job, New country, New life
So its been a while eh? Where have I been & what have I been up to? Well, times they are a-changing & not only have I started a new job, I’ve relocated the whole family to Spain. This is a...
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2013 – A Year For Retrospections
There has been several posts from folks reflecting on their 2012 on some of their goals for 2013. I love this idea so started to write my own… Unfortunately, when I started to write I could only...
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Big Tester Is Watching You – The Other Use For Production Data
We all know that we can use data generated from real customers to help us to create user journeys, scenarios & personas etc. but are you aware of the benefits of visualising some key aspects of...
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Visualising Production Data For The Team – 1st Challenge of 2013
I’ve mentioned in previous posts that I’ve started working for a new company. I’ve also mentioned before how I came to love big data & how Development Teams can use it to get an idea of Customer...
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Today I pitched my idea on visualising production data so that the team can see what kind of experience our customers are having. This is a brief update on my progress… I invited my fellow Tester, my...
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Less than three there there should never be
For safety reasons, there is a mantra in the canoeing community which is drilled into you from the first time you get in a boat: “less than three there should never be” It refers to the minimum number...
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Whiteboard Markers & Black Swans
A valuable lesson for me today in heuristics vs rules & black swans… I had a rule: “Markers with white bodies are for the whiteboard” This worked well for making sure we didn’t use sharpies on the...
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Let’s Taste
This post is a digest of my “Lets Taste” session from Let’s Test 2013 with some additions based on the feedback I received from the session. Retrospective on the session will come in a later post… I...
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Let’s Taste – The Retrospective
Here we go then with the dissection of my “Lets Taste” session at Let’s Test 2013. After reading the great post from Aleksis where he applies 6 Hats Thinking to attending Let’s Test, I’m going to try...
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The Cost Of Certification And Professional Exlusion
There’s been a fair amount of chatter recently regarding certifications & whether they’re good, bad or actually provide any value. I’ve been looking at them from a different perspective – As a self...
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The Forgotten Agile Principles
I recently watched a great TED talk from Simon Sinek titled “How great leaders inspire action” The main point that Simon makes in the talk is: “People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it” He...
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Ilari, Indexicality & I
Ilari Aegerter wrote a great post on Indexicality a while back which really piqued my interest & the impact on how I communicate as a Tester. Unfortunately, due to my slightly obsessive nature,...
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ISST launch!
The International Society for Software Testing has launched – lets start putting the common sense & humanity back into testing! I was fortunate enough to be asked to be one of the founding members...
View ArticleVisualising Production Data For The Team – Retrospective 2
So progress on this mini project has faltered a bit – hence the reason I haven’t been going on about it. My use of Splunk has diminished after I found out that we don’t send the Apache logs to Splunk....
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Applying the UX Usability Matrix of Emotions
David Greenlees wrote an article for Stickyminds which really piqued my interest as it definitely has a place in my context of online gambling & gaming. I’d recommend reading the “How the Usability...
View ArticleThe Importance Of A Test Environment
“What Is The Importance Of A Test Environment” This may seem like a really dumb question for some, but let me put it into context. I’m talking about the importance of the test environment relative to...
View ArticleEstablishing a Continuous Integration Pipeline Part 1
Part of my personal remit as a Tester is to ensure Testers can always test. This post is the first in series of posts about my progress in setting up a Continuous Integration (CI) pipeline in my...
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