This time in “People in Testing” I had the chance to interview Stephen Janaway, who is a well known expert in the mobile and e-commerce software testing world. Stephen has more than 15 years of experience and worked for companies like Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola and the Net-a-Porter Group.
In this interview Stephen will talk about his challenges he is currently facing, which test automation tool he is using, where he sees the software testing industry in the next years and the best bug he has ever found.
Daniel: Stephen, what is currently your biggest challenge at work?
Stephen: I’m working on a new social commerce platform. It’s a real greenfield project and a new direction for both the company and the team. And me. So it’s a very steep learning curve but a really enjoyable and challenging one. There’s a lot of testing to do and we’re trying to do things as sensibly as possible; employing both automation and good exploratory testing using the whole team.
The 12th issue of my software testing reading recommendations contains 8 post including one video. There are again posts from various topics like “How a lone tester can build an efficient test process despite the challenges” from Amy Philips which is a great article. Furthermore, there are articles about Lean Software Testing, what Simon Knight learned about communication from Eminem, a post about the different types of testers in the software industry and what testers should know about Windows 10 technical preview. There is a really great video from Gary Bernhardt’s Lightning talk about WAT. You need to watch this, it is funny and contains very interesting facts about Ruby and JavaScript. There is another article about automated security testing in a continuous delivery pipeline from Stephen De Vries which is very interesting.