We have a Sydney Testers evening with James Bach coming up soon and you might be curious to know why we are charging $5 for it when it seems we have a sponsor for the event (Campaign Monitor). There are actually a few reasons to try this model that I will explain in detail. Ongoing… Continue reading Sydney Testers and Money
Category: Technology
What’s with the coach titles?
Agile, Quality, Life, Career … everyone wants to be some sort coach these days. I don’t like the term coach. I feel like it downplays the hard work that goes into teaching. I learn and I teach what I learn. I love teaching so much I often do it for free. During uni I volunteered… Continue reading What’s with the coach titles?
Personal Branding
Warning: This blog contains promotional content. Personal branding is all about that, what else did you expect? We had a pretty awesome CV clinic for Sydney Testers yesterday held at Opus Recruitment Solutions. Barry Smith and Mike Hollowbread specialise in recruitment for software testers and went through their pointers for CVs. These guys see a lot… Continue reading Personal Branding
Getting started with GCloud, MySQL and the Command line
I’ve put together this guide for how I connect to my MySQL instance using google cloud after this tweet from @ddiversion: Would you know of any good resources to learn command line SQL queries (from connecting to a db to running SELECT queries, the whole thing)? Thanks! — skae (@ddiversion) August 2, 2018 Google cloud… Continue reading Getting started with GCloud, MySQL and the Command line
So you want to become more technical?
Here is my 5 step guide for becoming more technical without learning to code. No matter what your background, if you follow these steps you will be more hands on technical than I was when I first graduated from Computer Science at Uni. NOTE: If you are a software tester looking to get more technical… Continue reading So you want to become more technical?
My Approach to Testing
Someone asked me, “do I have a method for generating testing ideas?”. My answer; “I follow an exploratory approach to simultaneously learn, generate and execute test ideas”. This might involve exploring the product a little to learn about how it works, this will feed into questions/ideas and then I might explore some other ideas further.… Continue reading My Approach to Testing
Technical Presentations
A few years ago I was lucky enough to win a YOW! diversity scholarship for a day of speaker training with Damian Conway. I’ve never had the opportunity to learn so much about public speaking and giving technical presentations in as condensed timeframe before. These are my hints and tips picked up from that training… Continue reading Technical Presentations
Agile Australia 2018
On Tuesday the 19th of June I spoke at Agile Australia( access the recording here) on how to get more people involved with testing. You can access my slides; The bug hunt is on. I proposed 5 activities to help get more people involved with quality: Bug Bashes Bug Bounties Dog Fooding Knowledge sharing practices… Continue reading Agile Australia 2018
Getting up on stage
I enjoy performing. Don’t ask me why. I can’t explain it. You could say it’s something to do with the rush, or the perception of adding value or entertainment for other people. I want to tell you a few stories about my adventures in performing. Do you want to improve your performances? I’m available for… Continue reading Getting up on stage
Back on the job market
I find myself back on the job market after a break up with Campaign Monitor. I didn’t successfully pass probation. It was a mutual thing and both sides of the discussion were adult about it. These aren’t easy conversations to have and it doesn’t serve any purpose to get angry and rage quit. I am… Continue reading Back on the job market