How’s life Joel: Busy starting to plan conferences and customer trips, the usual. Rob: Good Christmas, slowly getting into the new year. As usual, big plans but we’ll see how the year goes. I’m going to be speaking at two confirmed conferences this year. EPIC conference, by Techwell, in San Diego in April – and…
Development should include testing. So why do we have test ops?
How’s life Joel: January is proving to be very busy! We are running the State of Testing, so I want to plug that one since we need the help of everyone filling out the survey. Rob: Great Christmas break, now back into a new year with new opportunities. I’ve been somewhat bemused by the rise…
How did Rob and Joel get started in testing? What was the world like back then… and is it different to today really?

How’s life Joel: November was crazy! I managed to be in the UK, Spain, Germany, Austria, and 4 different cities in the US. 4 Testing conferences – QA&Test, Agile TD, Testing United, and ConTEST NYC. Visited some amazing PractiTest’s customers. Was hardly at home all month long And if that wasn’t enough we had our…
Do I need to write my test cases before I run them?
Joel: Needless to say and come clean, I work for PractiTest and we have a Test Management tool / Service. This means that I basically get paid by the fact that people write their test cases upfront and then track their runs. But working for a company such as PractiTest, and before that for Mercury…
Agile not done “by the book”?
Joel: I got back from Japan a couple of days ago. Just like I do in most of my trips, I got to sit and talk to testers. I talked to testers in small companies, to testers in huge organizations, had sessions in 2 meetups, and in general had a chance to listen and learn…