Ben Fellows

@ThePirateTester Windows is the correct answer 😉

Getting all the prep work started for a new job (more details coming soon), and I asked for laptops, do they use Windows or Mac. Both! I asked for Windows, as I'm more comfortable with it. I asked what do the devs use, and they use Mac, so I can check Windows in testing now.

Good morning all. I thought I’d take some time to reintroduce myself here. I’m Swanny, an award winning consumer tech blogger. I cover gaming, audio and mobile. I also cover events and will be launching a new podcast for women in male dominated professions, like tech and gaming. I will be covering other industries too. I’m a mum to an awesome 12 year old who I stream on Twitch with. As well as supporting him in life in every way, I am also supportive of his goals on content creation and his dream to make a pro Apex tournament one day. Supporting your kids dreams is important! Having recently been made redundant, *MY* dream is to successfully relaunch my first baby, @girlsngadgets. Please, if you have the ability to help support me in this and you’re a company, a PR or in any way, please reach out to me via DM or to the email in my bio. Having taken the time to raise my son, I’m no longer on a lot of PR lists and it would be great to get back into the circle. Thanks for reading if you got this far. ❤️

@ThePirateTester Dude

Because I know it might shock/horrifying the rea drinkers I know, this is how much milk I have when I make a cup of tea.

@DahibhatePrachi The only thing Selenium automates is the manual process of inserting a value and checking the output against another value. A useful tool, but this alone isn't testing any more than a compiler or linter is automated development.

@DahibhatePrachi Selenium is great at running many broad checks quickly; valuable for bulk collecting certain facts about the product. But designing and coding valuable checks, evaluating the results and communicating problems to stakeholders is still a manual, cognitive, creative process.

Test automation should never be used to replace manual testing - it should be used to supplement manual testing with added coverage and cost effectiveness.

@DanAshby04 @FriendlyTester Endless loop, nice 😄

A comment from feedback on my keynote at #AgileTDOpenAir. "Imho the best keynote of the conference. Informative. Well performed. Learned things. Laughed. Everything. Already looking forward to the slides, I need this "DevOps" picture for my team."

@emna__ayadi @esconfs Seriously fancy indeed! Wow Emna!

@emna__ayadi @esconfs Foood 😮😮😮🤤🤤😂

@emna__ayadi @esconfs Haha these are amazing #ExploreWithEmna 😂

@hrisKoleva What has been the biggest shift in QA/testing since you started and do you consider it a good shift?

I’ve been working as a QA for 17 years. Ask me anything.

@ard_kramer @DahibhatePrachi No, but to elaborate on that would stray into the technical, which is inconsistent with the requirements.

@BenGTF46 @DahibhatePrachi so if you don't find 'broken things' you are not a good tester?

Your non-tech friend asks you “What is testing?” How do you respond?🤓

<encouragement> I don't know who needs to hear this but... Your instincts on quality & testing are absolutely bang on!! So whatever you're struggling with, it probably isn't a "you're focusing on the wrong thing" kind of problem. It's likely something else. </encouragement>

A Brief History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore 🧵

@maaretp @AWGHodder Yes! I did something similar with cognitive "third-way" testing.

It pains me so much that "manual" testing has such a bad rap, that paying engineers to write and maintain automated checks is seen as more valuable. The sad thing is, it often is, since noone wants to learn good testing skills and those that are skilled are undervalued

@ThePirateTester Great workshop and talk mate! Absolutely smashed it!

I feel shattered!

@james_christie @fishouthebox This rule should never have applied to software. I feel documentation is key here, highlighting the importance of journaling thoughts, ideas, feelings and observations as you test. Testing is much like social science this way.

@fishouthebox It is great to see people from the testing community taking an interest in this issue. It could be a very big deal for testers in the future. How confident can testers be in their work if it is scrutinised in court?

'The legal rule (in England &Wales) that computers are presumed to be operating correctly – unforeseen & unjust consequences', by various authors (including me, in small part). Why it's wrong & what we recommend. Highly relevant to the #PostOfficeScandal. journals.sas.ac.uk/deeslr/article…

"Computers don't make mistakes", true, but only because computers aren't people capable of making mistakes or otherwise. They do exactly what people tell them to do, including when people mistakenly tell them what to do.