The Power of Failure in Testing
The Power of Failure in Testing

The thing about success is, it’s easy to attribute to our own efforts and abilities while disregarding circumstantial elements, timing, and quite honestly, pure luck. Failure gives concrete feedback on our lack of perfection and should trigger self-reflection on some level. Not to say we can not fail out of “bad luck”, but at least it unveils the inherent uncertainty which lurks in the world we live. Success is a false sense of security that can impede us from asking the tough questions. Is this good enough? Would I have made it otherwise?

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AutomationRaphael AwoseyinQA RaphEnglish
Is A.I. Disrupting Our QA World?
Is A.I. Disrupting Our QA World?

2009 was a very important year for test automation. It signalled the dawn of a new era of seriousness on the subject. Eight years after Cem Kaner and James Bach published Lessons Learned in Software Testing, a landmark piece which helped defined the QA role as we know it, QA experts turned to automation and its proper integration into test strategy. Along with this awakening came several key publications that till today, are seen as major contributions to the test automation and QA world.

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Automation, Artificial IntelligenceRaphael AwoseyinEnglish
A Tale of the Tester’s Machine: Why Testers May Be Moving Over to the ‘Mac’ Side
A Tale of the Tester’s Machine: Why Testers May Be Moving Over to the ‘Mac’ Side

As testers, we didn't use to give much thought to our machines. Especially when we did only manual testing. The QA function wasn't any different from that of the business analyst in terms of computational needs. We got the standard company machine, which was most likely a PC. Even more so if the company was not particularly in the tech industry. All we needed was a machine that could run the software which we were testing.

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