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,...
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Risk Management, Priority, Process
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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...
Where Was QA? The Wrong Question
“Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort. There must be the will to produce a...
Stop the Blame Game
Something goes wrong. A defect escapes. A deadline slips. A customer complains. And almost immediately, someone asks:...
Accountability – Who Puts Their Hand Up?
There’s a moment that happens in every team or business, usually when something has gone wrong or a difficult decision...
Taking Testing Seriously – What Good QA Looks Like (Part 2 of 2)
In Part 1, I talked about checkbox testing: why it exists, what it catches, and what it misses. The short version is that...
Tick the Box – Why Checkbox QA Fails (Part 1 of 2)
There’s a version of QA that exists in a lot of organisations. It’s not talked about openly, but everyone knows...
Metrics That Matter – What to Measure and Why
In the last article, I talked about reporting – who needs what, and why one report rarely serves everyone. But...
Results Reporting – What Really Matters
I’ve seen a lot of test reports over the years. Detailed spreadsheets. Colour-coded dashboards. Metrics layered on...
