Self Education

The Swiss Army Tester

May 3, 2012 | posted in: Culture, General, Self Education, Testing, Tips and Tricks | by 2 Comments

Did you know that in Switzerland, it is still mandatory to complete military service (if you’re a male)? How would it be if we had to do the same in the IT industry? How would it turn out if testers spent some time as developers or developers spent time as Business analysts and so forth?..

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Perception in the workplace. How are you being perceived?

April 20, 2012 | posted in: Culture, General, Self Education, Tips and Tricks | by

Today, I am going to talk about something which affects all of us; In the workplace, at home, and in life in general. For the focus point of this article, I will relate it to IT, testing, and projects specifically. Perception in the workplace is something that I have personally had good and bad experiences..

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Fast Five with Phil Kirkham

April 2, 2012 | posted in: General, Self Education, Testing | by 1 Comment

Welcome to the second edition of our fast five series.  This time we delve into ‘the community’.  What’s that?  It’s what we (the community) call ourselves.  A group of testing junkies who are dead keen on the betterment of our craft.  We all know that bringing like minded folk together can only mean good things. ..

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The MacGyver Method

March 29, 2012 | posted in: Culture, General, Self Education, Testing | by

While writing the last post that tied into the movie, “The Last Boy Scout”, it got me to thinking that no matter how good you plan, there will be situations you had no way of predicting. One of my all-time favourite characters that could cope with just about any scenario was MacGyver. Now MacGyver wasn’t..

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How to be a Superhero tester

November 15, 2011 | posted in: General, Self Education, Team Work, Testing, Tips and Tricks | by

It’s obvious that none of us are able to walk through walls, shoot lasers from our eyes or use webbing from our wrists to travel around the city (if I am wrong and a true superhero is reading this… feel free to comment LOL)… but there are definitely ways to be a superhero in the..

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