I recently attended /Dev/World in Melbourne this week. This is Australia’s only iOS developer conference. Here is my summary of the conference. Themes There were a few themes that gleaned from the talks. These were; Swift is the most talked about language in this space People are still using Objective-C Cross platform remains a hot […]
Category Archives: Software Testing
Right To Left design considerations for mobile apps
We truly live in a global and inter connected society. But have you tested your app using a Right to Left (RTL) language such as Arabic? This blog post is a reflection on some of the design considerations to keep in mind when accomodating this. Why does this matter? Arabic is one of the top […]
A Mobile App Test Strategy
Test strategy, what a funny concept. Now this strategy isn’t going to help you win any battles (this is where the word strategy comes from after all) but for lack of a better well understood term, this blog post is a reflection on what I imagine will work for my team*. *disclaimer: what might work […]
70 days into #100DaysOfLinkedIn
Wow, I’m two thirds of the way through my #100DaysOfLinkedIn marketing campaign. Here is an update of how I’ve adapted and grown over that time. You can read up on the launch of the campaign and a halfway through update too. 2200 connections Before starting this campaign, I had 1400 connections. I’ve now see this […]
Test Automation Uni – Day 1
Today I hosted a lovely bunch of keen learners who wanted to put aside some time and do an online course with me. You can check out the event on meetup here. Today’s topic was setting a foundation for successful test automation by Angie Jones. I also streamed the activity and conversations via twitch.tv/BugHunterSam. Here […]
Tails of Fail
Today I gave a talk at TiCCA (Testing in Context Conference). The talk topic was tails of fail – how I failed a quality coach role. It’s a story of how I tried out this quality coaching thing but I didn’t pass probation. You can access the slides here. I used slido to manage the […]
Visual Risk & UI Automation framework
Have you wanted to start with automation testing and not known where to begin? Or maybe you have 100’s or thousands of test cases in your current automation pipeline and you want to reduce the build times. Here I will walk you through one way you could consider slicing up this problem. Using examples from […]
Soap Opera Testing
What is it? Soap Opera Testing is a dramatised method used for testing your business processes. You might want to try it for a super-condensed and thorough way of highlighting bugs. And because it’s fun. Embrace the drama. Origins Cem Kaner has been writting about scenario testing for a long time. He published this article […]
Becoming a Quality coach – course overview
I had the pleasure of doing Anne-Marie’s becoming a quality coach course today which was organised by Test-Ed. If you are looking to transition to a quality coach role it’s worth keeping this course on your radar. Anne-Marie is a well renowned expert in software testing and quality engineering. I had the pleasure of working […]
Orders of Communication
Have you ever wanted to ask a large group of people their thoughts on a particular topic? Maybe you want to know what the 2000+ members of the Sydney Testers meetup group want to get out of the group? Was your first thought to create a poll or send out a survey? I bet you […]