Today my manager Jay is leaving. It was a massive shock when I found out. As he’s the CTO I had two thoughts: “Oh no, I’m sad now” “Is the company in trouble?” So in fact, he’s making the decision to go purely because he wants a new challenge which is completely understandable and I […]
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Here’s my next post which appeared first on Simple Programmer.. Since I switched back into testing from a development role, I’ve been trying to build up skills that will future-proof myself. To do this, I’ve been going to more talks and conferences, and watching webinars on testing. What do I mean by future-proofing? I want
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Here’s my next post which appeared first on Simple Programmer.. Being a manager of a distributed team of people can be a challenging role. When you have to communicate on a daily basis and those people are in different time zones, or if you’re at the end of the project delivery date, you may find
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Last year, I was selected for a scholarship to Appium Conference 2018 by White October Events. I’ve been aware of Appium for years now as I’m an app developer but I’ve not (yet) used this tool on any of my projects. For those that don’t know, Appium is a mobile testing framework built upon the Webdriver
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It seems that containers are the new technology within IT that everyone is trying to incorporate into their infrastructure. And why? Containers not only benefit those in DevOps, but have positive implications for all teams involved in product delivery. At Immerse, we’ve recently moved our infrastructure to a containerised solution. It’s early days to analyse
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Here’s my next post which appeared first on Simple Programmer.. During the last few months of 2017, bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies were being talked about by some media sources on a daily basis. These currencies, which had been around for years, were suddenly experiencing major growth. For example, the price of bitcoin has grown from
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I was brought into my role at Immerse.io to uphold a high level of quality for the company’s awesome products. But where to start? After I put together my test strategy I needed to know how much test coverage was currently in place. Plenty of manual testing was taking place but it needed refining as not everything
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After reading The Power Of Habit by Charles Duhigg, it made me realise that people’s habits can be used to change behaviours for the good and yes, sometimes the bad. These changes in behaviours can either positively or negatively impact your life. So, in 2018, I’m going to try and do this for myself. Why not try
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Here’s my next post which appeared first on Simple Programmer.. There are many types of testing that you can add at different phases of your project. Your last line of defense is testing within the final stages of the project—where you can catch those last-minute defects that can potentially harm your product’s use, damage its
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Last Tuesday I attended TestExpo 2017. Since I switched back into testing, I have tried to read more about the changes in this field so that I’m more informed and in a better position to make decisions about the direction we take for QA within my day job and my personal projects. Why is going
