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Intuition vs objectivity in predicting software quality

Posted on May 25, 2018May 2, 2020 by Neil Syrett

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

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Testing at the tavern

Meetup Review: Testing at the Tavern

Posted on May 7, 2018September 11, 2018 by Neil Syrett

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

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Inception

Tests for your tests: Why you should be unit testing your automation frameworks

Posted on May 5, 2018May 18, 2021 by Neil Syrett

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

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Refinement Playing Cards

Do you want to play a game?

Posted on May 1, 2018May 10, 2021 by Neil Syrett

A card game for development teams to help define acceptance criteria, identify non-functional requirements, challenge assumptions, aid collaboration and promote team ownership of quality.

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Question

Why don’t testers ask questions any more?

Posted on April 22, 2018April 6, 2021 by Neil Syrett

Asking questions is a cornerstone of good software testing and asking educated, probing questions throughout the software development lifecycle is an unrivalled tool for both preventing bugs and for learning about the product, technology and business environment.

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James Bach

An audience with James Bach

Posted on April 20, 2018August 13, 2018 by Neil Syrett

In my last post I spoke about the time I arranged for James Bach to visit my work place and talk to our Software Testing Community. Here is the full video of the event: https://t.co/u7JzjD1ak1 Here are my

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