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People in Testing with Katrina Clokie

May 7, 2018October 12, 2015 by Daniel

This time in the “People in Testing” series, I had the chance to interview Katrina Clokie. Katrina is a very passionate software testing expert in various testing fields. She is an active contributor to the software testing community and the editor of the Testing Trapeze magazine. If you have any kind of question to Katrina, you can contact her on twitter.

Daniel: What is currently your biggest challenge at work?
Katrina: Since April I’ve been working in a test coaching role. My biggest challenge has been establishing good individual relationships with all the testers I work with. I spend a lot of time thinking about the number of interactions we have and what they are, as I know their primary responsibility is to their delivery teams and in some ways my work is a distraction from that. I am aiming to be approachable and helpful, without being overbearing and annoying. I hope I’m finding the right balance.

Reading Recommendations # 36

May 7, 2018October 1, 2015 by Daniel

Reading Recommendations - Adventures in QA

The 36th issue of the reading recommendation contains again 8 posts. There are topics about Women in Testing, Testing Skills, learning and what kind of skills helps you to built quality in. Furthermore, there is another episode from Stephen Janaway’s podcast series Testing in the Pub with the topic of security testing. There is another interesting post about the topic How I stopped hating QA. And Katrina Clokie provided yet another awesome testing pathway this time about security testing. And last but not least there is a topic about mobile testing.

Enjoy reading the posts and send me posts that are worth reading and I will mention you and link to your social links or blog.

	A Seasoned Tester’s Crystal Ball: Women (like me) in Testing
Source: visible-quality.blogspot.de/2015/09/women-like-me-in-testing.html

Win a Ticket to EuroSTAR Conference

May 7, 2018September 10, 2015 by Daniel

November is coming and with this blog post you have the chance to attend the EuroSTAR conference 2015 in Maastricht for FREE. This year the EuroSTAR conference is packed with lots of great keynotes, talks, active workshops and novices-speakeasy sessions that you should not miss.

There will be software testing experts from around the world who will share their knowledge on topics like:

Mobile Testing
Communication
Gamification
Context Driven
Test Automation
Embedded Testing
Test & Quality Management
Metrics & Methods
Agile Testing
Exploratory Testing

Please have a look at the complete program here. During great workshops, coffee breaks and social events you can exchange and share your knowledge with other software testing experts.

Rotation Tour in Mobile Testing

May 7, 2018August 24, 2015 by Daniel

When I plan my mobile testing efforts and activities, I always plan to perform some special testing with the help of heuristics/ mnemonics. I use the heuristics to concentrate on a specific part of the app to find different behaviors and bugs. I hope you are all familiar with the touring heuristics within software testing. If not, here is a short overview of very known and popular heuristics/ mnemonics.

There is the touring heuristic FCC CUTS VIDS from Michael D. Kelly. Where FCC CUTS VIDS should remind you of several testing tours you can perform on your software. FCC CUTS VIDS stands for:

Reading Recommendations # 29

May 7, 2018August 12, 2015 by Daniel

The 29th issue of my software testing reading recommendations contains 7 blog posts. There is a very interesting article on Hiring Testers and on Interview questions for possible new software testers. Furthermore, there is a blogpost from Uber and how they build their own mobile test automation framework called Octopus. There is another post from Richard about Testability Question. Lisa Crispin wrote an article about confidence which is really worth reading. Then there is a post about Personas and another with the topic “Amazon and Testing in Production”.

Enjoy reading the posts and send me posts that are worth reading and I will mention you and link to your social links or blog.

	Friendly Tester – Testability Question at CAST 2015
Source: www.thefriendlytester.co.uk/2015/08/testability-question-at-cast2015.html