Category: tech

• February 27, 2023

  5 Alternative Routes into Tech and Why They Matter

  

  The UK is in the midst of a digital skills shortage: the tech sector is growing rapidly, and we do not have enough skilled people to fill all the available job opportunities. On top of this, the tech sector is lacking in diversity. 26% of the tech workforce are women, and in the last year…
• February 14, 2023

  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…
• February 1, 2023

  Beth’s Guide to the Tech Galaxy: My favourite tech and testing resources!

  

  Getting started in the tech world can feel like a daunting task. How do you know where to start?! There are so many brilliant resources out there to help you learn, explore and connect with the many areas of tech that exist today. In this blog, I’m going to share my ‘Hitchhikers Guide’ to tech,…
• January 23, 2023

  Can We Build Tech We Can Trust?

  

  The embedded software market is growing and as we move into the age of automation and digitalization of processes that were previously manual, we see that technology is slowly becoming more responsible for every aspect of our safety.
• January 16, 2023

  Launching my blog

  

  I wanted to write about some of the tech that I’ve used behind the scenes to help me get this blog up and running, and hopefully highlight the fact that you don’t need to be a tech genius to start a website!
• January 14, 2023

  Women in Tech and Tech for Women

  

  The number of women working in STEM sectors is growing and has been on a steady rise during the 21st century. Whilst this progress is good, the overall percentage of women working in STEM roles is still low.
• January 14, 2023

  Lessons from an Electronics Newbie

  

  I should start this piece of by saying that ‘newbie’ may not be the exact right term to describe me in relation to electronics, because it’s not something that’s ‘new’ to me, but it’s something I’ve always struggled to be any good at.