The Beginning

Correctly testing software products these days is more crucial than ever. We live in an era of accelerated feedback in response to expected continuous quality. Software teams need to fully know they are releasing a superior product every single time they introduce changes into their production environment, whether they are bug fixes or hot new features. Bugs found in production by customers can cost companies money, reputation and stature depending on it's severity.  Testers have a unique position of being the closest to both the development and customer sides of the wall and can use this knowledge to provide safe travels of freshly made binaries to the awaiting customers.

The purpose of this blog is to share experiences and industry knowledge from working in the rapidly evolving field that is software testing. Software testers do not test like they did five years ago. Waiting for developers to throw changes over the testing wall and dedicating large swaths of time to regression and manual testing is quickly becoming a distant memory. The lines separating development and testing are becoming less prominent. Now, manual testers need to be familiar with newer terms like DevOps, Technical Debt, API's, A/B testing and many others. And, the windows to utilize this knowledge seemingly get smaller and smaller as we move towards a continuous delivery way of life.

My biggest hope is to create helpful articles that can give some insight into how to stay current with best practices and tools that can make testers more efficient and moving towards a successful career in software testing. If you stumble across this blog feel free to ask any questions or debate any points I make. I love and encourage discussion.