Author: stephdesby
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How doing puzzles can make you a better tester?
For Christmas, I was offered a good 1000 pieces puzzle. I wanted one for a long time but I couldn’t find one that I didn’t find ugly. So I made myself a cup of tea with some gingerbread and I was ready to appreciate this winter sunday with a smile. I started to assemble some…
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The Final Frontier
For a long time I thought I had to define an impassable frontier between my professional and personal life. And if, of course, you should take care of your personal life so it does not get invade by the professional one I’m starting to understand that I went to extreme about it. I’ll have to…
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As a tester, I never liked measurements. But that was before.
I never liked measurements because I’ve always seen them being used in a goal of surveillance or to blame someone or something. I’ve been asked to track my time, just to be forced then to justify why I took so much time to do this or that or not enough on this. I’ve seen them…
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What I’ve learned at Agile Testing Days 2022
Before diving into it I could have make a nice and polished blog post about this very important subject. But then it would have been an excuse for perfectionism and having this post published somewhere in 2023 and me still unsatisfied about it, the guilt of having postponed so much on top of it. So…