Bruce is Undeveloped, but maybe development will help – learn with me!
I'm not the biggest AI advocate you will meet. I've resisted using it for the most part, however I had work related reasons to learn Prompt Engineering, so here we are. I thought it'd be fun to share some of the things I discovered while exploring what GPT can and can't do. This blog post… Continue reading Exploring GPT
Welp it's that time again! (Or a bit later - I did this in October in 2018 and 2019!) It is time to find out how much Undeveloped Bruce has Developed in the last year! What is this and why did you agree to do a double self retro? So I was really struggling to… Continue reading Personal Development 2020 Retro
The second installment in the Goodbye Testing Columns Trilogy follows Bruce as they navigate post-destruction uncertainty like a lost child after the apocalypse. Should they have just left well alone? Will they ever stop crying? Find out in today's episode.
We're getting rid of the testing columns in Jira, woo! This is part 1, which covers the decision making process leading up to the event.
So if you've been following my blog for a while, you probably know a bit about my first crack at test automation - the Visual Regression Tests. These take screenshots of our products and then run pixel comparisons after a change is deployed to check if code changes have resulted in unwanted visual changes. It… Continue reading VRT: A series of mistakes
I began my journey as a software tester in April 2018, and six months later in October 2018 I decided to make myself a Personal Development Plan since my workplace didn't have one for me. It's been a year since then, so I'm having a look back at the last twelve months to see what… Continue reading Personal Development, One Year of Progress
So I'm a bit of a higgledy piggledy person in general, a messy storm of ideas. Don't get me wrong, I can be Rand Al Thor with his flame in the void, focussing on one task or feeling until it's done. But just like Rand Al Thor, I have a tendency to take on too… Continue reading Concentrate.
Got a group together to do some exploratory testing around authentication in a web app.
I think it's a common theme for me (and for many other testers) to feel that you have so many strands of work going on at the same time that there aren't enough hours in the day to remember everything you need to do, never mind getting round to actually doing it. When I first… Continue reading Tracking off-board tasks… on a board
So I've been doing a lot of exercises and reading around leadership - not to become a team lead or change roles or whatever, but because I want to be a good advisor, mentor and advocate for quality in my company. I started with The Leadership Journey by Jim Holmes, mainly because he offered TestBash-goers… Continue reading Building a team path for quality
Undeveloped Bruce 