Sing your voice
We all have a voice and a song. Sometimes, the song beats loud in our hearts, and sometimes, it's so quiet that you must stop everything else to listen.
It's your song. Only you can sing it. No one can sing your song like you do.
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The Extraordinary in the Ordinary
Recently, I’ve heard references to mediocrity in software testing. Statements like “Tolerance of mediocrity has done massive damage to our testing field". There’s an implicit judgment in this statement. In that word mediocre, there’s a suggestion that many in the software engineering field are somehow negligent,
Agency is ours to keep
In software testing, an activity that provides information on the state of quality, we're often in a position where we say "If only". If only we could get developers to do better unit testing if only the requirements were more complete. If only people kept us
Should my company ditch Testers and use Quality Coaches instead?
TL;DR: Quality coaching is a model you grow into, not adopt. That's because testing is an acquired skill, and teams must learn how to test. Pairing is an optimal way to learn about testing. As teams learn about risks, test design, and exploratory testing, they can preempt
Improve Your Sprint Planning with the Story Impact Checklist
By Allison Lazarz, Software Test Engineer at Cox Automotive (allison.lazarz@coxautoinc.com)
We’ve probably all been in situations where we’ve looked back at our 2-week sprint cycle and thought, “how did our team forget [fill in the blank]?” How did we forget we’d have a
Move at the speed of trust
"Move at the speed of trust. Focus on critical connections more than critical mass—build the resilience by building the relationships." - Adrienne Maree Brown
What is trust?
Trust, according to my go-to source of truth, The Thin Book of Trust by Charles Feltman, is built on four
Gap analysis in Devops
Gap analysis is a tool that helps us explore the space between where we are now and where we'd like to be. It's a way of assessing the disparities in performance to achieve a desired business strategy or specific objectives.
In the fast-paced world of