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...
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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 – 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...
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...
