Bruce is Undeveloped, but maybe development will help – learn with me!
I am an overachiever. I've always set out to excel at things, and I'm not particularly ambitious or choosy about what those things are. Working the breakfast shift in a hotel kitchen was definitely not what my parents hoped for me when I got my degree in Environmental Earth Sciences - but in everyday ways,… Continue reading The Power of Small Goals
Okay so I decided I'd like to do the Professional Scrum Master 1 assessment. I realised that I don't have any fancy letters to my name, no qualifications or certifications whatsoever that are anything to do with tech or testing. Not saying you need fancy letters to be good at a job, but sometimes it's… Continue reading How I studied for the PSMI certification
Okay that last post was a bit of a heavy topic, right? Goodness me! Too stressful, too stressful, I’m telling you - I got nothing done ALL WEEK from terror after posting that! XD You'll be glad to know I'm back on cheerier stuff - you may or may not have heard of the Rockstar… Continue reading Compiling a Rock Ballad that Compiles
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.
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
(Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!) I'm not done learning JavaScript yet, so I thought: do you know what, let's look at some other languages now. I don't know anyone who's finished a Udemy course anyway, and 33% completion is very good so it's time for me to move on (edit: I have completed at least one Udemy course) to… Continue reading Ruby, Ruby, Ruby, Ruby!
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.
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
Part two of my adventures at TestBash Brighton!
Undeveloped Bruce 