Trying to teach testing skills and judgement - eBook

I read yesterday an interesting ebook on teaching testing skills written by Rikard Edgren. The ebook can be found on the testhudd…

Take your testing career to the next level - What changes are needed for advancing in your career?

A few changes will be needed before you start the journey to the next level in your testing career. Start today Your career is im…

Take your testing career to the next level - What is the next level?

Where do you want to go from your present situation?  What do you want to do in the future? These are questions that you should…

Take your testing career to the next level

The next posts are about what to do to take your testing career to the next level. These things were helpful for me and they may …

Interview Tips

1. Prepare for the interview by studying the company and more important, the products of the company. Imagine that you are alread…

Why Are Testers Uninterested in Upgrading Their Skill Sets?

Article published today on the uTest.com blog: http://blog.utest.com/2014/11/21/why-are-testers-uninterested-in-upgrading-their-s…

Three ways for testers to take their careers to the next level

I just had an article published on the uTest blog this morning. Hope you like it: http://blog.utest.com/2014/07/29/three-ways-for…

Lesson Learned in Software Testing .... interviewing

I go to interviews from time to time. One of these interviews reminded me the importance of being clear of what I want in a new j…

Open the browser using a different account

If you are testing web applications that have their security integrated with Active Directory, from time to time, you may need to…

Follow Your Passion Or ............. Not

I read recently a few articles on what people should do to find success. Some say "follow your passion", others "f…

Finding the spark again as a software tester

My short post about losing and finding the spark for software testing is published now on the uTest blog: Finding the spark again…

Web Testing Exploratory Tours

This is the list of exploratory testing tours that James Whittaker (former Google QA director, working for Microsoft again curren…

T-SHAPE testers

There are 2 ways of finding your way professionally . This is not valid only for testing and software development but for other p…

QTRACE - good exploratory testing tool

2 years ago, while still working in one of my last full time jobs (only working on contract these days), I saw a presentation giv…

Tips and Tricks for testing credit cards validation

1. The following test credit cards validate properly but are not actually in use ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/258255 ): AMER…