What would you do when you are asked to provide estimations on “How long it will take to test” something, without getting much more than the title of a feature or an Epic. Sounds made-up? Believe it, it is not ..read more

Ever felt like testers have a frustrating job? I have had my share of places and times when I found myself working with people and testing in organizations and products that were really annoying! What are the most common frustrations in testing and what can we do as testers and managers to decrease the suffering levels of our teams ..read more

If you are listening from somewhere in the Civilized world (with some exceptions around China and the Scandinavian countries) you are probably listening to this podcast from home. You are keeping social distance, and coping with new work & life reality than the one we used to have at the beginning of 2020. Today we want to review a number of points and talk about things you may do to improve your working from home status ..read more

What does Continuous Improvement have to do with Testing? Good question. This topic is not only related to testing, but it is definitely needed in every team, and testers are specially positioned to drive change and especially improvements, as we are tasked with looking at the product and the process and find what doesn’t work correctly in them. Once we know what needs to be improved, it is only natural that we push to make this happen ..read more

Is there a more controversial topic in testing? Yet a tool more widely used by testing teams? We count everything - how many tests have we run, how many bugs, what is the relationship between developers and testers, how many minutes before lunch… Let’s talk about metrics, what do you say ..read more

In today’s podcast episode we’re going to talk about how to tell better stories ..read more

Let’s try to analyze together what Test Ops means, or what it may mean, and get an idea of what practical things we can get from it in order to improve the value we provide as testers in our teams ..read more

E26 - What’s The Deal With Regression Testing by Rob Lambert & Joel Montvelisky ..read more

Today we review how we became testers in the first place. How was the world back then, and then try to understand if the world today is so different from what it was back then ..read more

I’ve had many chats with testing peers who chose to invest (or maybe waste) their time explaining why writing down test cases upfront is a waste of good testing efforts, and why it is simply better to test and then choose what to report or communicate upfront. Since I’ve had to do this again lately I thought it might be a good chance to recount why I think that the vast majority of times (not all times) it is better, maybe even essential, to document your test cases upfront ..read more