At last after a year of wrangling, shuffling and even some pleading Michael Bolton in association with Testing Times is coming Dublin to give his wonderful Rapid Software Testing Course. Not that Michael needed persuading to come. He jumped at the opportunity. Mostly because he loves giving this course and helping testers well, develop sense. […]
Have I ever written about how competitive I am? Lets just say I like to win. A lot. Best explained by an example I think. In my heyday I was a bit of a runner. Not a bad one, but not the best and I knew it. My favourite race was the 800 meters, a […]
In my experience, selling testing is a lot harder than testing. Despite being Irish, “the gift of the gab” eludes me, often leaving me tongue tied and twisted when selling my wares. Its one of the reasons I have got myself a business mentor. His main focus has been for me to understand my ‘product’ […]
I had this great plan for today where I would observe how I work throughout a day of exploratory testing. Unfortunately, the software is not quite ready for testing, so my plan has been slightly scuppered. Still I suppose this situation is often typical of any testing scenario, so I will still include it into […]
I’m a nice person. Well, I like to think I’m a nice person anyhow, and some people tell me that’s true too. Especially my kids, they tell me I’m the best Mum in the world. Aw shucks! But sometimes, being nice creates problems because I want people to be nice back to me too. This […]