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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Quality
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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...
Make Performance Testing Matter
Most performance testing is fluff. Full of twists and turns, culminating in a report that most don’t understand, if...
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 – 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...
