This week I decided to go international and participated in my first Weekend Testing Europe session. It’s not region locked or anything, the sessions offered by the Weekend Testing Americas I’ve attended have all had an international cast of characters as well. Mostly it offers people more convenient times, although I have had my curiosity … [Read more…]
This Weekend Testing session was a bug hunt on LightBot, which is a game designed to help people learn programming concepts. The Balancing Act One of the first things I realized is testing a game is hard! I put my testing hat on and started looking at the game. I had to try the game … [Read more…]
A lot of people think testers can only test things with a GUI. If we can’t click it or touch it then we are out of our depth. A key area of software applications today is not GUI based, it is the engines that power the applications, it is the API’s. Some companies only product … [Read more…]
Testers use heuristics all the time to evaluate software whether intentionally or intuitively. For this Weekend Testing Session we dug into testing heuristics. This is my 4th session Weekend Testing, and each one has been well worth the time spent, but I’ll be honest I had my mind blown twice in this session. Albert Gareev … [Read more…]
If you haven’t heard of it before, Weekend Testing brings testers together to engage in a bustling Skype conversation on a testing related topic. You get all levels of experience and background which fosters some good conversation, insight and is great opportunity to exercise your testing brain. It’s great because it the session may not … [Read more…]
This weekend I had the opportunity to attend another session of WeekendTesting. This session was a little different than the last session I attended on Mobile Testing since we weren’t going to focus on testing software but instead on Bug Rehab. Bug Report Rehab The goal of the session was to look at existing bug … [Read more…]
I first heard of Weekend Testing several years ago, I meant to get involved then but just never made the time. Enter the CAST 2015 live stream and the keynote by Ajay Balamurugadas where there was a call to action to engage and contribute to the community. I hadn’t realized there was such a strong … [Read more…]