Is the job market for testers over a century out of date?

Testers are building their careers in a job market that many experience as difficult. Our ancestors from the early years of the twentieth century would have recognised today’s job market.  One of my relatives has researched the family tree. He found that when he researched individuals, they had different jobs each time they appeared in …

Why does testing take so long?

Sometimes testers are asked ‘why does testing take so long?’ The question should not make testers feel defensive. We should always be looking to improve our test process. Testers can use a technique from Toyota to answer the question and improve our process.  Testers want their testing to flow easily from one task to the …

A great resource for leaders in test and quality – A review of “Learning to Lead, Leading to Learn” by Katie Anderson

The Toyota leader Isao Yoshino learned many lessons during his career.  Katie Anderson shares these lessons in “Learning to Lead, Leading to Learn “,  which I have just read with the Profound Book Club. Toyota has made so many innovations in quality. If you are a Test\QE\QA Manager or Lead or want to become one …

“Go see, ask why, show respect”

Test analysts, test engineers, test leads and test managers need to understand customers so that our testing includes using the product as the customer uses it. To do this we need to learn how customers use the product by meeting the customer and seeing how they use it. Mr Fuji Cho, the former President of …

My new guiding principles are helping me to automate tests.

It is useful to have guiding principles on how to be a good employee, teammate and tester. I work in teams that describe themselves as lean or agile and so I am interested in learning what lean and agile are. Learning about how lean and agile came about helps me understand them. John Willis has …

Why we should work in small batches – a story from Japan

“The ability to work and deliver in small batches is especially important” [1], which is why many development teams work in small batches.  Scrum teams work in small batches by limiting the work they plan to do in a sprint. Kanban teams work in small batches by limiting the work in progress. Working in small …

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