Every few sprints, without fail, someone on the team makes the joke. A product manager, an engineer, someone in standup. “Watch out, QA’s gonna go break things again.” Or my personal favorite: “Can you not break it this time?” They’re laughing when they say it. I know they mean well. But every time I hear...
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...
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...
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...
