Nicola Lindgren – A journey through testing, automation, development and agile

First, what is a heuristic?

An annoying thing I’ve had to deal with recently is adding an image (both where you take a photo with the camera and also from the gallery).

If you haven’t already, you may one day find yourself in a project where there are no (explicit) requirements or very little requirements to go off.

As I write this my daughter is having a nap, and I’m trying to enjoy my first day of vacation.

When I was in university, I signed up to a mentoring program.

I wish I knew more about… Git and Source Control.

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Almost nine months ago, I gave birth to our daughter.

New to testing?

As a tester, I do my best to follow the principles of Context Driven Testing.

I first came across the idea of Psychological Safety in 2017 when I attended Joshua Kerievsky’s talk on Psychological Safety at Öredev.

Part I is here Here are some of my key learnings on the last 3 talks I was able to attend at Testbash Brighton 2019 before I had to leave early to catch my flight back home.

It’s been an intense month in a my personal life and even more intense (exciting!)

In the morning I attended Martin Hynie’s and Chris Blain’s workshop on Context Driven Coaching… There is no script.

For Part I go here Devoting time and effort - when I have it While I’m on my project my priority is as a tester in my scrum team.

For about 4-6 months, I have been leading the Testing Community of Practice at my current project.

Here is my blog series on how to test with Charles Proxy.

I had seen blog posts and activity on Twitter in the years leading up to my first ever Agile Testing Days (ATD)- it seemed like people really enjoyed this conference, so it’s safe to say I was glad to get this email from Uwe saying: “Congratulations, you…

Just under two weeks ago, I flew to Belgrade for the first time, to present my talk: “What I wish I knew in my first year of testing” at the Starter track.

I love analogies.

As I am helping introduce Exploratory Testing to our current project, there is one thing I’ve had to remind myself over and over and over again..

According to Software Testing Class, Acceptance Criteria are conditions which a software application should satisfy to be accepted by a user or customer.

This is an experience report covering the first half of the TestBash Belfast 2017 conference.

I thought I’d share my experience at Romanian Testing Conference 2017 with the use of photos.

Well, this is a bit of a rant - but seriously.

In his own words, here’s a bit about Mark Winteringham: I am a tester, coach, mentor, teacher and international speaker, presenting workshops and talks on technical testing techniques.

I started on a new project a few weeks ago and thought it would be a good idea to share a checklist for what new testers on a project need and some good starting questions when you, as a tester, are new on a project Checklist for what new testers on a pro…

Now that I’ve started actively preparing for my “Testing so you can move on” talk at Testbash Belfast and Romanian Testing Conference, I’ve started to notice how my thought process is developing as a result of talking out loud.

Yesterday I had an interview with the Test Manager for a potential project and the subject of providing valuable information, as testers, came up.

I’ve been really lucky to have found and been inspired by some amazing people at work.

About 6 months ago, I completed my last project in the Humorously Speaking Manual.

Yesterday I competed at my Toastmasters club’s annual Evaluation Contest.

Rosie is founder of Ministry of Testing and an unschooling mother to 4 amazing children.

Earlier this week I was a co-presenter for a 2 day workshop on SBTM (Session Based Test Management), at Unity.

Olof Svedström has worked as an engineering lead within software testing and quality at Spotify for 5 years, during a period when he has been part of the journey where they have grown from 5 to 100 million active users and from 150 to 2000+ employees.

Up until yesterday, I had only gone to testing conferences - for me these were a safe familiar place.

Last night I attended a software testing meet-up where Örjan spoke about his experiences in Managing Quality in an Agile team, He raised a few interesting points from a management perspective - but it was one in particular that caught my attention: protec…

A few months ago I started a testing meet-up in Stockholm.

Maria has worked in software development for 15 years with context driven testing as her main focus.

Last year, I wrote a two-part reflection on my experience at Let’s Test, which detailed every session I went to.

Preparation A few months ago, I approached Maria Kedemo to be my mentor as part of the Speak Easy Program.

I recently completed the BBST Bug Advocacy course and am currently waiting to hear whether I passed or failed.

First off, thanks heaps to Rosie and the volunteers.

Yesterday morning I took part in Mentor Sverige’s Job Mentoring Programme at Ribbyskolan.

Lately, I’ve been getting back into Toastmasters.

I’ve been mainly working remotely for the past month and did a bit of remote working before Christmas.

Last week I went to a testing meet-up where one of the presenters said that he used documentation to defend himself - which really caught my attention.

Software Testing is not for Attention Seekers.

After my Google Hangout Interview with Katrina, I started to think about picking your battles - which she listed as an important quality of a tester.

Spent half an hour talking to Katrina about software testing.