REACT to Bugs

The most common artifact that testers produce are bug reports. So what do you do when you actually find a bug? You react, here’s a mnemonic that may help your process… R eproduce The cornerstone of proving a bugs existence is if you can track down steps to reproduce it. Like ghosts, bigfoot, or aliens … [Read more…]

Mental Warfare: Legacy Apps

In software we so often focus on the new, new products, new features, new technology. The thing is we don’t all get to work on the shiny new stuff, many of us spend a good amount of our time maintaining existing, often referred to as legacy products. It might not always be pretty but it … [Read more…]

Finding Happy Choices

There’s a term for juggling your work life and personal life, work life balance. It’s hard not to hear about it, companies talk about it all the time, in interviews, in meetings, it’s everywhere and it’s great that it’s being taken seriously. Fantastic, let’s assume then that your job provides a healthy work life balance. … [Read more…]