Some of my best testing insights have come in the shower. This is where I share opinions, perspectives, and half-baked ideas about software QA — the stuff that doesn’t fit neatly into a tutorial.
The first time I was asked to load test a website I had no idea where to start. No ChatGPT, no mentors. I Googled my way through it alone. The site was about as simple as it gets. One page. One PDF to open or download. That’s it. And I still couldn’t pull it off....
My entire four year CS degree dedicated maybe two weeks to software testing. It was my final year. A professor assigned us a group project — build a website with a partner team abroad, one person plays product manager, the rest are devs, and someone has to write a test plan. We had no idea...
There’s a common belief that testing LLM-based apps is fundamentally different from testing traditional software — that because outputs are non-deterministic, the whole testing playbook needs to be thrown out. This is not entirely true, and believing it should not be an excuse to skip testing altogether. Yes, an LLM won’t return the exact same...
A few years ago I wrote about how a long pandemic shower helped me realize that software testing is really just collecting information. That clicked for me. But the more I’ve worked in QA since then, the more I’ve realized that definition only answers what testers do — not why it matters. Here’s where my...
Here’s the thing: a bug is just a piece of information telling you what’s wrong with an application. And if you think of it that way, then any tool you use to communicate with your team is technically a tool you can use to report bugs. Jira, Slack, Zoom, email, a tap on the shoulder...
When I look back on the pre-pandemic days, I realize I had been testing software for years without truly understanding what software testing meant. All that changed when the pandemic hit. Covid was in the news cycle daily, and you couldn’t get away from the constant articles telling you where and how to get tested...
