Do we think this is really the salary on offer here ... it seems worryingly low for a lead qa! Why do companies think it's okay to pay such low salaries for quality and testing experts? Let alone for someone you want to manage others and responsible for quality processes etc 🤔🫣

My dear Developers, My dear Software Engineers, It's part of your job to explain to the business/product/company that making the new feature takes time. It's part of your job to explain that you must apply some code quality and software engineering best practices (writing tests, etc.) If you don't, if you accept the pressure you can receive from them to deliver as quickly as possible and deliver a piece of software that is impossible to maintain because you bypassed all the best practices (no tests, etc.), THAT IS YOUR FAULT! It's not the fault of the business/product/company. And once the unmaintainable software costs so much to barely be maintainable and barely evolveable, once everyone is too scared to touch it, once the complexity is so big that each time you make a change you introduce a bug in prod, they will blame YOU! And they will be right! That's part of their job to defend their constraints, which can be time, budget, etc. And that's part of your job to defend your engineering constraints! You need to find a common ground between all the company constraints, engineering constraints being part of it. We can't only accept theirs and ditch ours. By maintaining some software quality, you'll maintain a healthy software, a healthy delivery pace over a long period of time (years), and a healthy quality of life in your job. Thank you ❤️

How many development environments do most people have ... 3 e.g. dev, qa and preprod OR 2 e.g. dev and qa OR any other numbers and combinations? What benefits or problems do you see with the combinations?

What does one do if you've just started a job, then go on a permitted holiday, just to return and be really poorly? Sat in A&E for last 8 hours already, and not expecting to go home for another 2 hours ... but terrified to call in sick as I'm so new.

Today my squad lead said that she had let the team know before I started that it would still be everyone's responsibility to test as my role was more than just testing as it also encompasses quality more!! Music to my ears ... I feel blessed to have such an wise squad lead!

Does anyone in the testing community network work in/with a conversational design team for a AI Web messaging product? I'm looking for connections to talk about testing strategy ideas etc 😁

Day 1 complete .... I finally received my laptop mid morning and then spent alot of the day trying to log on and get past all the authentication gubbins by mid afternoon. Made a start on the mandatory training 😀 .. now ready for Day 2 tomorrow 🥳

I've had a fabulous day at #PeersCon24 today. A great day of talks and catching up with some fabulous people from the testing community. Well done to Testing Peers and all your VolunPeers for your first conference .... a great job and a lovely day! 😀

On my way to #peerscon .... cannot wait for the day ahead and catching up with everyone from the testing community 😀

New job post: Quality Engineering Lead With EasyJet in Luton, Befordshire. United Kingdom ministryoftesting.com/jobs/e…

There's a new show coming. First episode dropping on the 5th Feb, 2024. Will be available on YouTube as video, and via your favourite podcast app as audio. More details soon.

How do you decide what to include in acceptance tests where unit tests have been written against the code that forms the APIs? Should we reduce acceptance tests if part of the API is covered in the unit tests? I'm of the mindset we should not duplicate tests between the 2 layers

Is Testbash only in Brighton in 2024? And not in Nottingham anymore?

I have had the best fun this week learning so much more about testing APIs and using Postman to write tests. I never realised how much more technical it can make me feel to be able to test an API without having to learn to write a full automation framework.

How to foster a Culture of Quality through the lens of Quality Engineering. A thread 🧵👇 #quality #culture #qualityengineering #testing #testers #SoftwareEngineering #CultureOfQuality #QualityOutcomes #SocioTechnicalSystems #QENewsletter

I am still so excited about the launch of the inaugural Testing Peers conference, in Nottingham on March 14th 2024 A lot of hard work is to come, but I'm so excited to see what we can build together. #PeersCon will succeed through contributions from the community.