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Zooming in and out

Over my career in Software Testing, I’ve had the pleasure to analyze and model a lot of systems. Some of them have had tons of formal architecture models and others have had little more than a few ...

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Successful collaborative testing sessions

In my recent experience, I’ve found a few things that help set up a successful collaborative testing session. I’ve used these to collaborate with members of my team, across multiple disciplines fr...

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5 ways testing mobile is different from web

1 Hardware Web apps run on almost any device, from a games console to a tricked-out multi-core desktop PC with a giant high-resolution screen. In contrast, mobile apps typically run on Android, iO...

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That shiny new feature works, so what?

What does it mean, to say your feature is complete? In software delivery teams I’ve worked in, we have often been responsible for parts of products. Sometimes this means we have been responsible...

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This Week in Testing

Today I had the immense honour of co-hosting the LinkedIn audio event, This Week in Testing, with the most excellent Community Boss, Simon Tomes. I really enjoyed co-hosting. I’ve been on panels, ...

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Testing notes

Testing notes are an essential part of how I do software testing, if you don’t use them no shade from me, but I need my notes! Over the years, I’ve taken notes in very different ways, and using di...

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How many Yak's have you shaved this week?

A quick bonus post today, I’m enjoying writing long-form posts weekly, but I wanted to sneak in a little one, enjoy. Yaks You know all those seemingly meaningless tasks you need to do, to cover c...

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What makes up a software stack

I like to think of a software stack, also referred to as a technology stack, as the different layers of technology that build on top of eachother in order to make a functioning system. What goes i...

Content creation goals

It feels like it has been ages since I last wrote on my blog. Over the last few months, I’ve had dips where I’ve not created much content, or I’ve posted it directly on The Club, instead of on my p...

Ben dressed as an elf with a santa hat giving his talk at Automation Advocates

Collaborating to build better software

A goal for growth This year I set myself a goal: Increase my confidence talking about software testing and bring my joy of testing to people who build software but are not specialised in testing....