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#GarethSouthgateWould as a Software Tester

Gareth Southgate has impressed me massively over the past few weeks. The empathy and compassion he has shown to other players, the way he has made this tournament about the team and not about any individual is amazing.



I was reading the #GarethSouthgateWould hashtags on Twitter and there were some classics in there. I'll let you read them for yourselves, but I thought it would be cool to make it themed towards testing, here are some I came up with off the top of my head... Though I am sure there are more.

#GarethSouthgateWould - Ensure that automated checks clean up after themselves

#GarethSouthgateWould - Share with other testers blogs and articles they have read that they enjoyed

#GarethSouthgateWould - go through and remove any Thread.Sleeps from any automated checks

#GarethSouthgateWould - Take time out to help another tester who is struggling with something, even when he doesn't know the solution.

It made me realise that these are all things that a caring and compassionate good tester should do anyway, these are things that I like to think I would do anyway.

What else would Gareth Southgate the software tester do!?


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