Test Data Is Lying To You – Why Environments Drift
I have lost more time to test data than to any tool, framework, or flaky assertion combined. The bug that I cannot reproduce...
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Defect Management and SLA’s – The Backlog Is Not a Strategy
A few years back I opened a bug backlog that had ~400 open defects sitting in it. The team had been carrying it long before...
Severity vs Priority – The Fight for Clarity
Every team has this argument, when a simple agreement can clear most of it up. A bug gets logged and QA flags it as...
You’re Already Doing Security Testing – The OWASP Top 10
There’s a conversation that happens in most QA teams eventually. Someone asks about security testing. Someone else...
The LinkedIn Wasteland
I’ve been on LinkedIn a few years less than what I’ve been a QA, and for most of that time it was fine. Useful,...
Vibe Coding – Nevermind the Bollocks
My last 3 articles, I just couldn’t bring myself to publish. I was too close to the subject matter, so they came off a...
Risk-Based Testing – Make It Stick (Part 3 of 3)
You’ve got the why. You’ve got the how. Now comes the bit that actually determines whether any of this matters,...
Risk-Based Testing – The How (Part 2 of 3)
In Part 1, we covered why risk-based testing matters and what it actually means. Now comes the practical bit: how to do it...
Risk-Based Testing – The Why & What (Part 1 of 3)
I was working with a client a while back, a mid-sized SaaS team, about forty people across dev, QA, and product. Good...
Building Test Frameworks with AI – What a Day Can Do
Last time I covered some of what/how I did things, so you could call this a part 2 in a sense. This time, it’s more...
