Testing the Waterhouse

I've decided to attempt to do the Ministry Of Testings 30 Days of Testing Challenges over the month of July, which will be erm... challenging! (duh!) For those that don't know what it is, you can read about it here  and the challenges are below: The first challenge is to read a Testing Book, the book I've chosen is " Dear Evil Tester " by the one and only Alan Richardson. So I will start reading that on Friday and then take it from there! I'll try and write some posts that will update, but if you're reading this, and it sounds interesting to you, then my advice to you is to do it! It's only 30 days, you'll learn loads of stuff and it's fun! Remember, a quote from Empire Records, "I do not regret the things I have done, but those I did not do"

I thought it might be interesting to some people to start doing some posts about my day to day job as a QA Lead! I often get asked what it is that I do, how do I do it, what skills are important and just what is difficult about the job, so what better way than to just start a diary documenting all of this!? In writing this, I've figured it would be a good idea to get others to do the same across the different levels and teams, as we very often get asked in interviews "What will my day to day role be?" So hopefully this will serve as a useful piece of information. So lets begin (on a Friday as this idea came to me on a Friday!) Friday June 17 : 8AM : It's Friday, and it's Summer, so you know what that means (or maybe you don't, but you will now)... It's Summer hours here! So a 3PM finish today! I got in early today to make up for the England game yesterday where no work was completed for obvious reasons (what a result!), I have to catch up on emails...

Apologies for the lack of blog posts, but for those that don't know me, not only am I a struggling Tester, but also a struggling Parent! I have 2 kids, a 2 year old and a (soon to be) 5 year old! They are my world, and they're also the inspiration for some blog posts that I tend to write, this latest one is no different... My 2 year old daughter has begun to question a lot of what I say to her. "Please don't climb up the slide" "Why?" "Because the slide is slippery and you might hurt yourself" "Why?" "Because it rained last night" Ad infinitum! My 5 year old said to me and Jess the other day "We mustn't ask "Why?" must we because that is answering back" I thought to myself, I don't want him to stop asking Why? to stop asking "What If?" This is a massive skill and something we as Testers should definitely have and encouraged. So I had to explain to him that it's ...