Neil Syrett | Software Tester
Just under a year ago the team and I made the bold decision to delete our existing suite of automated browser test. The suite was your traditional web test framework – SpecFlow, Selenium WebDriver, Page Object Model.
Continue reading
Over the past year or so, I’ve been actively using my deck of TestSphere cards, mainly as a way of introducing people to the mindset of testing. Recently, however my good colleague Stu Crocker introduced me to
Continue reading
In recent weeks I have been reading a little on the subjects of cognitive biases and human fallibility. Earlier this week I stumbled upon the work of clinical psychologist Paul E Meehl. In his 1954 work on
Continue reading
Last week I was invited by @stefantomas, a friend and former colleague, to attend his new London software testing meetup catchily named Testing at the Tavern Now I’ll be honest I was a little apprehensive. I’ve been to
Continue reading
Before I get hammered by the checking vs testing advocates, please let me caveat this post by saying that this entire post is about automated checking, but for readability purposes I may from time to time use
Continue reading
TL/DR: Download the Refinement Playing Cards and get playing: https://syrett.blog/download/refinement-playing-cards/ In a previous post – Why don’t testers ask questions any more? – I discussed some of the challenges that prevent testers from asking the right questions and suggested
Continue reading
