Ian Wells
Testing in a world of abundance – the importance of asking the right questions Part 2
What makes a good tester? Its the ability to ask the right questions and use this to make the right test plan, so says, Paul Theyers This...
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Ian Wells
The art of being a tester: Am I asking the right question?
📷 Paul Theyers and I, in a free ranging, fun conversation today about the joys and challenges of testing, discussed “what makes a...
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Striving to learn – not by studying – by doing
📷 I am traditionally schooled. I used to think that, if I wanted to learn something new, I would take a course on it – go back to...
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Upstreaming Quality
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...
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3 questions to ask when interviewing for a tester role
As Laszlo Bock also found out after sifting through Google data, its very difficult to predict how someone will do in a job, based on...
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Four kinds of testers
I have hired 50 or more testers and interviewed hundreds of tester candidates. The trick is to hire the right tester for the testing job...
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9 Characteristics of Excellent Software Tools
📷 Excellent software requires excellent tools Those who know me, know I am partial to a few software tool providers, namely Atlassianand...
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Interns can help NZ universities keep up with the rate of tech change
Technical change is occurring at an increasing rate. All of us, technical or not, work to keep up. At Universities, the cycle of adding...
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Interships: Value for business – need for data
I am a big supporter of internships – they are a fantastic way for students to get started in their careers. How about business? Could...
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Waterloo co-op students become entrepreneurs
I hired 20 co-op students from the University of Waterloo to work on my test team here in New Zealand over several years. These...
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How to improve Internships in NZ
In my previous posts I described my experiences with one world-class internship program - the University of Waterloo co-op program. New...
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World Competitive NZ internships: Direct value to business
This is the second in a series of posts looking internship programs in New Zealand and how they compare to world-wide competition. 📷 In...
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Waterloo example of world class internship program
In this post, I describe student internships and explore the opportunities in New Zealand to create a world class technology internship...
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My recommended podcasts
Traditional Podcasts Many of these are existing radio shows, rebundled as podcasts. All great to listen to. Kiwimana bee podcasts - I was...
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Traditional Podcasts
Many of these are existing radio shows, rebundled as podcasts. All great to listen to. Kiwimana bee podcasts – I was recently introduced...
Ian Wells
The Emerging Podcast Eruption Disruption
This is my first post here on venduco.co.nz. So this is for fun. I ponder the effects of podcasting on traditional New Zealand media...
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