Category: software testing
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From Insanity to Innovation: Overcoming the Pesticide Paradox in Testing
You may have heard the phrase ‘Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results’, and by that definition testing can be insane. (I’m sure there are many testers out there who would agree!)
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Quantum Leap – The 2024 BCS SIGiST Conference
On the 19th of June, the BCS Special Interest Group in Software Testing (SIGiST) welcomed nearly 200 in-person and online attendees to their 2024 Summer Conference, hosted at the BCS Offices in London and live-streamed via Zoom. A key event in the Software Testing calendar, this conference attracted speakers and attendees from across the world…
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The Justice League Approach to Testing: Embracing Diversity for Effective Quality Assurance
Having a diverse group of people involved in the design of tests, means you are likely to design more new and unique test scenarios, improving quality assurance for your product. For an analogy, let’s look at groups of superheroes like The Avengers or The Justice League. Each member of those teams brings a different superpower…
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The Future of Tech is Built on Generalists, not Specialists
I have one prediction for the near future of the tech sector: The end of specialisms is coming.
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E2E Testing with Playwright for Python: Pros and Cons
Playwright is an end-to-end (E2E) testing tool for web based applications. I’ve recently started using Playwright for testing APIs and websites, and I wanted to share my experiences. Playwright comes in two different flavours. There is ‘standard’ Playwright, which is installed using npm or yarm and involves writing tests in Javascript or Typescript. Then there…
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Highlights from SIGiST23
The British Computing Society’s Special Interest Group in Software Testing (SIGiST) is the largest not-for-profit testing community in the UK. Every year, SIGiST hosts an annual conference that brings together industry leaders and experts on all topics related to testing and quality. I spoke virtually at the 2022 conference, and this year not only did…
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How do you get maximum benefit from code reviews?
Code reviews are a commonly used quality gate, and form of best practice, in Software Development. Code reviews can also be considered a form of software testing. When they are designed and used properly, code reviews can bring huge benefits for the quality of software products: allowing for defects to be identified and fixed, documentation…
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Reclaiming Technology as a Tester’s Playground.
Play is the highest form of research. – Neville V. Scarfe. Dr Merritt Moore used the above quote in her Keynote speech at the 2023 WISE Conference to talk about transferrable skills. Dr Moore is a quantum physicist and a professional ballet dancer, and she excels in combining the creative and the technical through her…
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What Skills do Testers Need to Succeed?
Recent research shows that even in 2023, 95% of employers looking for tech talent have encountered a skills shortage over the past year. But what skills are they actually looking for? Roles in technology are incredibly varied, stemming from software development through to architecture, project management and of course software testing. Each of these career…
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What role will DevOps play in the future of Quality?
As more organisations and teams move towards working in agile ways, I see two things happening in the testing and quality world: software developers and engineers are integrating testing work more naturally into their development activities, and testers are having to broaden their skillset. One of the skills that I think testers should be learning…
She Codes the Cosmos 