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

Maaret is a feedback fairy with 25-years of experience on testing and everything around it.

If you are reading this, I am going to assume you are also working in IT.

Lisa Crispin is the co-author, with Janet Gregory, of three books: Agile Testing Condensed: A Brief Introduction, More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team, Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams; the LiveLessons Agile…

In one of my previous blog posts, The Economics of Software Testing: Opportunity Cost, I explained how this key concept in Economics, applies to the software testing industry, This time, however, I would like to focus on the opportuniy cost of Test Automa…

Lena Nyström has been in the IT-industry since 1999 when she got her first job as a developer.

Set the scene A week ago, I started thinking about one of my past failures.

Callum Cakehurst-Ryan (he/him) is a Senior Test Engineer with 14 years of experience across multiple domains from finance to public safety.

Elizabeth Zagroba is Quality Lead at Mendix in The Netherlands.

A few times throughout my career I’ve found myself working in an environment where there is a high developer-to-tester ratio.

In this series of blog posts, the goal is to help someone get started testing with Charles Proxy.

In this series of blog posts, the goal is to help someone get started testing with Charles Proxy.

I find one of the hardest things about testing with a new tool, is actually getting started; familiarising myself with the new tool.

The Software Tester’s Journey Book About the Book: You now understand the strengths and weaknesses of scripted versus exploratory work.

Starting Your Software Testing Career Book About the Book: Do you want to become a Software Tester but not sure where to start?

It can be difficult to deal with intermittent bugs when they arise.

I went to Toastmasters regularly for almost 8 years and one of my biggest key takeaways was the value of feedback.

I’ve spent a few years of my career testing eCommerce sites and wanted to share a few test ideas, aside from the obvious ones such as add to cart, remove from cart, go to payments page etc.

Hi there, my name is Christina.

In past projects, written requirements have often been used as oracles to determine whether or not the behaviour they are seeing in the SUT (Software Under Test) is correct or not.

It’s not hard to find articles or pieces of research claiming that the sooner you find a bug, the cheaper it is to fix.

So, you want to become a software tester but you are not currently working in the IT industry?

I’ve always found it fascinating how people can use the same words but be referring to something entirely different.

On my current project I’m in charge of both manual testing the app on iOS and Android as well as maintaining two separate automation suites for iOS and Android (when I joined the team I had to overhaul each suite as the app was rebuilt).

I had an interesting conversation with our Managing Director of the European Studios at a recent get together where our Malmö team got to meet our leadership team in real life, after a long time of only seeing people’s headers and shoulders (#notsponsored…

While it’s important to make sure your test automation has good coverage, I think it’s also important to know under which circumstances you should not write automated tests.

A few years ago I wrote a post on getting started on a testing project.

It seems to me that there’s an increasing demand to hire people who can write test automation, or at least are “technical testers”.

Marie Cruz is a Quality Engineering Manager at Zoopla.

Emma Bostian is an American Software Engineer working at Spotify in Stockholm, Sweden.

What is a sunk cost?

Andreas Lindgren is a backend lead at Apptus Technologies, which provides AI-powered optimisation software for eCommerce companies.

We had our weekly European tech team meeting today and the format was to be randomly assigned someone and then ask them questions about work or their project.

I’ve written a fair bit about implementing change in the past, including two articles on the Ministry of Testing site on Introducing Colleagues to Exploratory Testing and going about implementing change when you’re not a manager.

A few months ago I volunteered to help hold retrospectives in our cross-functional team.

When my daughter started to learn how to walk, we immediately started buying corner protectors and had multiple scans of our apartment to see if there were any dangers lurking that we had to remove or cover up.

Outside of work I consider myself a minimalist.

One of the things that frustrates me the most about baking is the fact I don’t tend to find out whether or not my baking was a success until the very end when I slice into that cake or bite into that cookie.

I’ve had many first days in a team since I started my testing career almost nine years ago.

I tend to be wary of giving unsolicited feedback in general, even with the best intentions, it doesn’t always go down well.

Intermittent bugs can be a frustration for not only testers but the rest of a team.

Project context At my first ever project, I was one of the UAT testers for an internal application (only business user facing), where you would have to create different types of profiles (for people or for organisations) and then later edit those profiles…

For the past seven months, since I came back from maternity leave, I’ve spent the majority of my time focussing on test automation.

I’ve been pondering about this blog post since I saw the Ministry of Testing discussion post and to be honest, I really struggled to interpret it.

What the law of diminishing returns?

I recently read a chapter on Explore/Exploit in Algorithms to Live By, and saw how much this concept can apply to software testing.

In November 2018, I gave a talk at Belgrade Test Conference on ‘What I wish I knew in my first year of testing’.

In this blog post, I will focus primarily on the struggles I’ve faced in managing and achieving my goals, as well as what I’ve learned from it.

Here’s a step by step guide on how to write a bug report /defect report.

When I was in high school I learned about a very interesting concept called Opportunity Cost in my Economics class.

In November 2018, I gave a talk at Belgrade Test Conference on ‘What I wish I knew in my first year of testing’.