I have experienced the departure of many colleagues at Mxi, and each time it has been emotional and stressful. Now it is my turn to leave. I wanted to minimize that same gut-punch to my friends and team. So, like...
The leadership construct whereby a workforce is graded in accordance with the individual...
I often make reference to the Agile Quadrants model to help explain different modes of testing, and how automation is just a part of a larger domain of testing.
“Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful”
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This month I had the opportunity to give a workshop at this year’s Targeting Quality conference in Kitchener-Waterloo. I lead my attendees on a quest to empower them with the tools to author Selenium WebDriver scripts. My slide deck...
This month, I ran my first retrospective for a different team at work. I’ve been participating in retrospectives run by my team mate and have wanted to try my hand at facilitating. When a different team approached me to host...
A coworker recently shared with me this SlideShare presentation from ThoughtWorks.
I had never seen the Agile Testing Quadrants model by Brian Marick, but I believe it will be useful in helping me communicate types of testing to the...
It has been a progressive unraveling of my assumptions and understanding of what is the Context Driven movement going on in testing. When Selena Delesie first arrived at my work to help facilitate our learning of the possibilities a title of...
I typically hear two categories for software features: internal and external. Occasionally, from the development side, I hear of a third option: deprecated. I am proposing a fourth category, that I often find in enterprise software that I would call...
When looking at a potential coach or teacher, I find myself often using the following criteria to help me make a selection.
Note: The recommendations I make in this report are specific to the contextual needs of my current team. Your mileage may vary 
The goal of this research was to determine tools and techniques to empower developers in...
There is an underwhelming quantity of test reporting options. The protocols for integration are few (XUnit and TAP) and the few tools that I found are not focused on reporting.
If adopting a reporting tool, I would recommend using SonarQube....
Recommend starting with Chai.js + Mochaß, and Sinon.js for mocking when necessary.
A lot of the test libraries available are similar, so it is hard to go wrong. Chai.js appears to be commonly used and also integrated into larger frameworks. Since Chai...
Report Summary:
My responsibilities include researching and investigating tools to help others test software. I was recently asked to investigate options for helping developers author Unit Tests for Javascript applications.
While thinking about performing the investigation, it came to me that I...
On my first day in my new job, my boss threw out a challenge to me: submit a proposal to CAST for a conference talk I could give. The submission due date was is 42 hours…
CAST is the...
It is time to start learning about virtual machines. Microsoft is kindly offering up free VMs to do browser testing. I find this exciting. Where I work we often have physical machines to host different Operating Systems, to accommodate...
I worked on a new tool for Selenium JUnit testing: video recording of test execution. There are some good articles on how to utilize Monte Media Library for Java to add recording to your code. However, I did not see...
This week the team said farewell to a valuable teacher: Paul Holland. He had joined us for a fixed duration to learn who we are, share his observations and teach his knowledge. I am glad to have met him,...
This week was spent gaining context on APIs. Questions such as:
My first week in, and I am being exposed to my team mates’ interests.
My cube mate has done some great things to make front-end automation tools available to all developers on the floor. Coming from the dev group myself,...
I may be new to the testing team at work, but I am no stranger to the culture exposed on the internet. I have long been a reader of many online blogs regarding testing. To name a few of my...
[Note: The term “Automated Test” is slowly being pushed to a simplified rename as “Check”. This is being put forward by the software testing community to disambiguate between the less intelligent verification done by a machine vs. the intuitive and...
