Author: kristinjackvony

Testathon

Recently, I was talking with some technology leaders at my company about how we needed to encourage testers to do more exploratory testing. We were getting ready to hold our second annual Hackathon, and one of our group suggested “Why not have a competition for testing as well?” And thus, Testathon was born! To prepare […]

SOLID Principles for Testers: The Open-Closed Principle

This month we are continuing our investigation of SOLID principles with the “O” value: the Open-Closed principle. This principle states the following: a class should be open for extension, but closed for modification. What does this mean? It means that once a class is used by other code, you shouldn’t change the class. If you […]

SOLID Principles for Testers: The Single Responsibility Principle

Those who have been reading my blog for several years have probably figured out that when I want to learn something, I challenge myself to write a blog post about it. In 2020, I read one book on software testing each month and wrote a book review. In 2023, I learned about one Logical Fallacy […]

Why I Hate Test Case Management Systems (and Why I’m Using One Anyway)

One of the first things I learned as a new software tester was how much I hated test case management systems. If you aren’t familiar with test case management systems, they are tools that allow testers to keep a collection of manual tests for reuse. In the days before test automation was popular, they were […]