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Watch my talk "Mapping Biases to Testing" for free

I gave my talk about the role of cognitive biases in testing at TestBash Manchester 2018. It’s available for free on the Dojo. Watch it HERE! The description for the talk is: We used to believe in the statement: “testers should be objective”. This translated to separate test teams

Mapping Biases to Testing - Hypocognition

“What is hypocognition? If you don’t know, you’ve just experienced it.” In my opinion, there is no better way to introduce the concept of hypocognition than the sentence you just read. “Hypocognition, a term introduced to modern behavioral science by anthropologist Robert Levy, means the lack of a

Interviewing for new testers - advice from the community

It’s not often that I get to interview potential new tester colleagues so I asked for input from the test community on Twitter to help me out. This is the thread if you want to skip this post, but I’ll also make a more readable list here. Any

UX designer for two days

Over the last few years I’ve always worked with UX designers, but I had never tried being one for two days. I had my chance last week when I was part of a “design pressure cooker” with a mission to make our app “simpler” and to enable our users

Mob Programming Journey - The Start of the Start

Even though mob programming has been around in the way it’s currently known since 2011, I’ve been quite late to join the party. My first experience with it dates back to October 2016, when I had the pleasure of facilitating a workshop with Maaret about Exploratory Testing &

Bashing Code and the Similarities to Bullying

Some developers on my team like to bash code that was written by one person in particular who has left the project 1 year ago. It still seems something they enjoy doing, preferably in groups. I’ve called them out on it, especially when a new person came into the

Selling Quality

After giving a talk about testing to developers, someone in the audience asked: how do you sell testing and quality to the business? How do you get them to realise those are important? Those questions stopped me right in my tracks. In a sense, you never have to sell the