📷What is a wicked problem? From “Don’t even think about it - why are brains are wired to ignore climate change” by George Marshall: (loosely copied from his...

📷 I have managed testing  for Telogis NZ, for the Trimble Mapping & GIS division,  for a Hewlett-Packard compiler group, and  managed testing at a variety o...

📷This American Life raises a profound but obvious point about truth telling. I was brought up to know that  lying is a bad thing. With a tech education, I b...

It is impossible to📷 comprehensively test a complex commercial software system and still launch on time. Wouldn't be nice to be able to predict the future a...

As we all know from experience, it is not sufficient for just the software team to follow agile processes. 📷 You need the support of the rest of the organis...

📷 Yes, the KISS is a Rodin sculpture, set in stone - but for  testers, developers and product owners, KISS can be something else just as solid:   Keep It Si...

📷 Here is a common testing problem. I am testing a beta or live release of software. Now I need to create 2 or more fake users to login, all with different ...

📷 In Christchurch, non-tech service companies, such as those in the the trades,  are spending increasing amounts of time and cost in overhead. This overhead...

Here is a situation I have experienced many times. The software team is so busy writing code and testing in order to deliver critical software to customers, ...

Penny Wyatt, QA manager at Atlassian, gave an insightful talk at the 2014 Atlassian Summit on how to do QA. 📷QA at Atlassian, and other companies such as Sp...