To Automate or not to Automate your Tests?
The degree to which your tests are automated or not, can be a huge factor in how successful your continuous testing strategy is. Determining the correct split between automated and manual testing will, to some some extent, make or break your releases. If you have too many automated tests, or your tests are too complicated, […]
Test-Planning-Simplified-Webinar
As part of my Product Manager duties with TestRail, I delivered a test planning webinar based on my Test Planning Simplified article. You can watch the video below, or via the TestRail site, where you’ll find more webinars in this series and other useful…
Cunning Strategies for Getting out of a Testing Rut
One of the things you’ve probably noticed when you’ve been software testing for a while, and particularly when you’ve been testing the same product for any length of time, is that your brain starts to settle into some established ways…
The Testing Hero’s Journey
The video of my 2020 Romanian Testing Conference talk, The Testing Hero’s Journey, can be found below. Full disclosure, the talk was originally planned as a 2hr workshop. But then COVID happened. So it got compressed down to a 30min…
Test Planning Simplified
In my experiences of planning for testing in various different environments, and across a number of teams and organisations, the value of that planning was never the document itself; rather, it was the thoughts and consideration of the activities, resources…