Software Testing How To Use Mind Mapping As a Hack for Testers One of the biggest challenges I've seen during the years with many teams is that they do not have a clear understanding and an overview of all of the features and functionalities of the application they are working on. They do know though what their application is doing as this
Personal Development Featured The Easiest Way To Get Into a Leadership Role Before revealing the secret recipe, please accept my apologies - the title of this post is a big buzzword placed there with the intent to draw your attention. Why? Because I know many of you are seeking to get into a leadership role and I truly believe that sharing my
Software Testing More Than Interviewing For Testers I took part in a bunch of interviews in the past years and during this time, I've worked on polishing my set of questions to be addressed to our candidates. For a long period, being a candidate to an interview was like a nightmare for me, and have tried to
Software Testing I Wish I Knew More About... Picking the right battles. Or picking the right areas to focus on. Why? Well, because in software testing you can easily get assaulted by a tone of technologies, methodologies, frameworks, tools you are required to master and to learn this or that and might become scary as you get to
Software Testing How Does DEVOPS See Testers? This is a series of blog post interviews, aiming to help testers understand how different IT departments see the role of a tester. Every tester wants to become a better version of itself, yet not everyone has all the missing pieces in doing that. Hopefully, these interviews will give you
Personal Development How Does a DEVELOPER See Testers This is a series of blog post interviews, aiming to help testers understand how different IT departments see the role of a tester. Every tester wants to become a better version of itself, yet not everyone has all the missing pieces in doing that. Hopefully, these interviews will give you
Community How Does a RECRUITER See Testers This is a series of blog post interviews, aiming to help testers understand how different IT departments see the role of a tester. Every tester wants to become a better version of itself, yet not everyone has all the missing pieces in doing that. Hopefully, these interviews will give you
Software Testing Letter to my fellow tester. 🔵 The text below was published in "Around the World with 80 Software Testers" book. The book draws upon the knowledge and experience from both experts and new voices from around the world involved in software testing. Don't be shy. Let your voice be heard. Why? Because your voice is valuable
Software Testing Tester Or Developer - Which One Is Better? It was 14 years ago, I was in the second year at college. True story. A group of students organized a trip in the Romanian mountains, in the heart of Transylvania. After we got there, being young and restless, we all ordered some beers and started chatting about various topics,
Software Testing How Can You Easily End Up Wasting Your Time As a Tester? We're talking a lot about productivity these days. And more than that we try to impose ourselves different ways to stay productive, ways in which we can maximize our working time, and in the end, this is not a bad thing, right? But what do we do when all our
Personal Development Setting Professional Objectives Made Easy Professional growth. We're all seeking professional growth and that's because we're all looking to be better than yesterday, smarter than last year and we need to fit that image that we've created in our heads about the future us. Which is fine. But how about the moment when we get
Software Testing How Do You Prevent Regression Defects? I was talking a while ago with a workmate, hearing him complaining by the big number of regression defects he's identifying each time a new build gets to the QA environment. Let's call him Bob. And to make things clear from the very beginning, Bob was not complaining by the
Software Testing Crafting Your Career in Software Testing Let's admit it, a teenager finishing high-school and starting college is unlikely to tell you he's/she's dreaming to become a software tester. When I was in college (more than 10 years ago) I barely heard about software testing and when I did, it was because of one course that
Software Testing What "Software Testing By The Book" Is? 7th of November. In some days I decide to go and have lunch on my own. Usually, I pick a small table to enjoy my lunch, putting my cell phone away and focusing on my thoughts and the people entering and leaving the restaurant. There are cases when people around
Personal Development Why I Transitioned From Medium To My Own Blog When I first thought I would like to write things learned from my experience as software tester I did not have any kind of a plan. "Should I buy a domain? How should I name it? How am I going to manage all the stuff a blog requires? Do I
Software Testing Why Is It So Hard To Create A Community Of Practice? First thing first, let’s agree on what is a community of practice. A community of practice is a group of people who come together to build and share knowledge, to build and share skills, to build networks, and to build recognition. — UCD Dublin Why is it so hard to
Software Testing 14 Most Common Mistakes A Tester Makes Did you do any mistake recently? I did. But we’re all humans, right? And we’re all likely to make mistakes. Usually people associate making mistakes with punishment which in most of the cases is the immediate action after a mistake is made. And seeing the good part in
Software Testing How Google Analytics Can Help Assessing Risks In Software Testing We are talking a lot about risks in software development in general, and much more in software testing. And this happens because testing often becomes constrained by time, resources or budget. There have been lots and lots of talks and articles lately about how to identify the potential risks and
Personal Development “Add Positivity Into Your Testing” There is something that keeps hunting me in the last couple of days and I was trying to give it more and more sense. It is a sentence that Richard Bradshaw put together at Romania Testing Conference this year: Add positivity into your testing. When I heard it, I was
Software Testing Romania Testing Conference 2018 Through A Volunteer’s Eyes “Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something” -Frederick Smith Romania Testing Conference is a 3-day conference that takes place in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, once a year, usually in May. I first took contact with it in 2012, when I think was at the first edition, and
Software Testing 5 Tips To Deal With Untested Code As software testers, we deal every day with a lot of untested (or insufficiently tested) code. You might say “that’s a tester’s role, to find bugs in the code, is not the developer’s role” and I wouldn’t say you’re not right. But, you are partially
Software Testing Exploratory Testing Undressed — How I Changed My Mind About It? Exploratory testing is most probably the first type of testing a person interacting with a software is doing, even if it is a tester, a developer or a business analyst. Cem Kaner defines it in 1984 as: “a style of software testing that emphasises the personal freedom and responsibility of
Software Testing How Docker Can Rock A Tester’s World? I first heard about Docker a couple of years ago. By that time, it appeared that our team liked the idea of adopting the newest and coolest kid in town and lot of questions were raised about how to migrate from using Vagrant to using Docker. All the concepts that
Software Testing Top 5 Skills Every Tester Should Master A year ago I was part of a group of people, all QA engineers, trying to teach other people the art of … what else? Software testing. And let me tell you something. You realise that you really love what you do when you spend your free time talking about that
Software Testing Smooth Transitioning From Scrum To Kanban Years ago, when I started to work as a QA engineer, Waterfall methodology was in its popular times (it might still be popular for some people nowadays) and I had barely heard by that time that there are some other ways of conducting your work. Then I changed my job
