What is this site?
BleepingBugs is a software testing blog for QA practitioners in the field. I’m still figuring things out and writing about it as I go. If you want to hone your craft alongside someone who’s doing the same, you’re in the right place.
I’ve been in QA long enough to have strong opinions about it and long enough to be frustrated by how poorly understood it is. It’s not just misunderstood by the teams QA works with, but sometimes by QA engineers themselves. There’s a lot of “this is just how it’s done” in this industry and not enough questioning of why.
That’s where the Shower Thoughts come from. QA has a lot of room to grow and I’m always turning over ideas about how to do it better, how to make the case for it, how to think about it differently, how to stop it from being the last thing anyone thinks about.
The tutorials are the other side of that: practical guides based on tools and processes I’ve actually used on real projects. Not things I’ve read about. Things I’ve actually done.
I wish I’d had a shortcut when I was starting out. Someone who’d already made the mistakes and could just tell me what they’d learned. That’s what I’m trying to be here.
Where did “BleepingBugs” come from?
Two blogs caught my eye when I was looking for inspiration: CodingHorror and BleepingComputer.
CodingHorror had a really cool logo and the right playfulness but it was a programming blog. BleepingComputer had a witty name and I wanted that energy for a software testing blog. Replace ‘computer’ with ‘bugs’, add a mascot that looks like a gremlin lurking in your app, and it just clicked.
Besides, who hasn’t yelled out bleep when testing?