- Help for you on your systems thinking journey – A review of “Thinking in Systems: A Primer” by Donella H. Meadows
- Quality comes first – A review of “Deming’s Road to Continual Improvement” by William W. Scherkenbach
- Collaborative customer-focused systems thinking – a review of Sys-Tao: Western Logic – Eastern Flow by Bob Browne
- We can learn so much from how AI got here – A review of Rebels of Reason by John Willis with Derek Lewis
- Is the job market for testers over a century out of date?
- A review of reviewing “Rebels of Reason – The Long Road from Aristotle to ChatGPT & AI’s Heroes Who Kept the Faith” by John Willis with Derek Lewis
- Learning from winners
- Dear Software Testing
- Exploring Systems Thinking
- Thank you software testing.
- We need cooperation between testers and developers
- There are advantages to using the API to tear down automated end-to-end tests
- Testers should not be defensive – A review of “Teaching Smart People How to Learn” by Chris Argyris
- Should we add new features or improve the usability and discoverability of existing features?
- Regular expressions can help you to do more with your automated tests
- How do testers assist organisational learning?
- Using recognised techniques to create tests gives teams advantages
- Great careers advice for testers – A Review of The Software Testers Journey by Nicola Lindgren and Vernon Richards
- Ten reasons why you should lint your test automation code
- Interpreting ‘quality’ in more than one way helps me uncover issues
- Benefit from a richer Page Object Model with abstract classes and functions
- To copy a testing process “is to invite disaster”
- Generic functions help me to reduce the amount of Playwright test automation code
- Why does testing take so long?
- I am a student of testing
- Do outages have to be the new normal?
- Make your Playwright tests run faster by using the Playwright API to wait
- “The Purpose of Analysis is Insight”
- What training did you get when you became a Test Manager?
- A great resource for leaders in test and quality – A review of “Learning to Lead, Leading to Learn” by Katie Anderson
- “Go see, ask why, show respect”
- Learning from CrowdStrike with Taguchi
- My new guiding principles are helping me to automate tests.
- Whoever you are, whatever you have achieved you should recognise the achievements of others
- Use code reviews to have discussions about your test automation code
- Two ways of learning that benefit testing
- A Great Self-Organising Team
- How do you decide which tests to automate?
- Who is responsible for quality? Is it the tester, or the team?
- How to help your team complete their work and so have more time for testing
- Gain insights by using control charts to analyse your performance test results
- How long will that test automation take?
- Do Chromatic tests complement Playwright tests?
- Cooperation helps to improve testing, helps testers and helps the company
- Think slowly when you are testing And Think slowly when you are automating
- It is better if we build quality into the product instead of trying to test quality in
- If you are weighing up which tool to use for test automation have a look at Playwrights Trace Viewer, it may persuade you to use Playwright
- Sometimes you need to assert that Playwright tests are not running too fast!
- Get insights from “The World of W. Edwards Deming” by Cecelia S. Kilian
- The Pesticide Paradox is a reason to do exploratory testing
- A review of ”The Checklist Manifesto How to Get Things Right” by Atul Gawande
- Drive out fear to improve psychological safety
- A review of “Understanding Variation The Key to Managing Chaos” by Donald J. Wheeler
- Testing qualities not quality
- Developing your listening skills is really useful
- TIL: more about using zero in testing
- Test using Quality Characteristics\Factors\Attributes that you create.
- How long should an automated test pack take to run? And what should we do about it?
- A theory of management for improvement of quality vs a quality improvement plan, which helps us more?
- Gaining a knowledge of React is helping me automate tests
- Writing test automation standards is a journey, not a destination
- Why I don’t record automated tests
- A review of “Black-Box Testing” by Boris Beizer
- Are you testing output and outcome?
- A review of “Deming’s Journey to Profound Knowledge” by John “Botchagalupe” Willis with Derek Lewis
- Automated tests do not have to be flaky.
- How a lone tester can work across teams
- Some “new” practices are actually quite “old”
- The Seedbed of a Quality Revolution
- Make test automation easier with better feedback for parameters with TypeScript
- I got such a buzz from the SIGiST23 testing conference!
- A review of “The Art of Software Testing”
- Improve test coverage by parameterising tests with Playwright and other tools
- How can you improve the testability of your product?
- Why we should work in small batches – a story from Japan
- First Thoughts on a System of Profound Testing
- OpenAI contains tools that can help us with test automation
- A review of “Total Quality Control – the Japanese Way” by Kaoru Ishikawa
- Use a cause-and-effect diagram to achieve consensus when defining quality
- Profound Testing with John Willis
- The Theory of Knowledge helps us learn from our work
- Don’t forget to test the steps in the Help documentation!
- Using front-end tests for Test-Driven Development
- A thought regarding boundary value analysis
- Definitions of Done, Team Agreements, Ways of Working and Checklists have so much in common
- It is never too late to reassess how you define quality
- A review of Dr Joseph Juran’s autobiography: “Architect of Quality”
- A chart for measuring the quality of “spinning plates”
- Articles published on other websites
- The Five S’s create a structure for test automation
- First impressions of test automation with Playwright
- Using plan-do-study-act to improve testing
- How to create a simple performance test with Puppeteer
- Lessons Learned from being Programme Secretary of a testing conference
- We need to remove barriers to good work
- Using Ishikawa diagrams to improve quality
- Testing conferences and events that I have participated in:
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