A few years ago I wrote about how a long pandemic shower helped me realize that software testing is really just collecting information about system behavior. 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....
Most QAs think reporting a bug means opening Jira. And sure, Jira works. But that framing limits your options. A bug is just information about a risk — here’s something wrong, here’s how bad it could be, here’s what we should do about it. And information doesn’t care how it travels. As long as the...
I was three years into a QA career when the pandemic hit. Testing Manager at a tech startup, CS degree, the whole thing. You’d think I would’ve had a solid handle on what software testing actually was. I didn’t. Not really. I knew the definitions. I’d memorized them the same way I memorized Newton’s equations...
