Katrina the Tester

I lead a team of Test Coaches, which is still a relatively unusual role in our industry. As a Test Coach I was part of a number of conversat...

Imagine a traditional capability matrix. A spreadsheet where each column is skill, each row is the name of an individual, and then the map i...

When you're a tester in an agile team, it can be easy to fall into a comfortable testing pattern. The transparency of daily stand-up and...

A couple of weeks ago I created a Twitter poll about unit tests that asked: "Is code without unit tests inherently bad code?"  ...

When you’ve agreed what you want to automate , the next thing you’ll need to do is choose a tool. As a tester most of the conversations I ob...

Part of my role is figuring out where to lead testing within my organisation. When thinking strategically about testing I consider: how t...

When you start to think about a new automated test suite, the first conversations you have will focus on what you're going to automate. ...