Author: kristinjackvony

For this month’s post, I’m doing something a little different! Usually my posts are aimed at software testers who want to improve their skills and improve their thinking about what to test. But this month, I want address the people who hire the software testers! Making the right hiring decisions is crucial. Being saddled with […]

When I was first introduced to JavaScript automated testing, I was working with a test framework that one of the developers I worked with had set up. I started the tests the way he told me to, with this command: npm run protractor. Later, when I was working with a different project, the command to […]

It’s a new year, which is a great time to take a look at your career and plan what you’d like to accomplish. One of the things I love about software testing is that it’s a continually evolving craft. The software that we test changes over time, as do the methods and tools we use. […]

Anyone who has focused on improving their health has learned that health begins with good habits: taking care of one’s teeth, exercising regularly, eating a healthy diet, and so on. Quick fixes like diet pills and one jog around the block might provide temporary improvement, but for permanent results, healthy habits are the way to […]

Web Accessibility means making a website easier to use and understand for people with visual, auditory, physical, or cognitive difficulties. Did you know that there are specific guidelines for how to make a website accessible? The guidelines are called the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, or WCAG for short. The guidelines were created by the Web […]

Recently I was meeting with some coworkers who were looking to improve our Continuous Delivery practices. They were thinking of ways to measure our progress with automated testing, and one of the first suggestions was to measure code coverage. “Nope,” I said. “Measuring code coverage isn’t helpful because it doesn’t indicate whether we have good […]

In my last post, I introduced the concept of the Quality Maturity Model: a series of behaviors that help teams attain various attributes of quality in their software. One of the things it’s important to note is that adopting a Quality Maturity Model requires the whole team to contribute to quality. Quality is not something […]

One year ago, my company adopted something we call the “Quality Maturity Model”. We created the model to help teams measure how they are doing with behaviors that support creating quality applications. The project has been a big success, so I’ve decided to share some details about it with the world! We started out by […]

Most software companies would agree that in order to release quality software in a timely fashion, good test automation is necessary. There’s simply not enough time to wait around for manual testers to do a complete pass of regression tests before releasing new features; progress would slow to a point that the company would not […]

Last week, I released a web application for people to use to practice UI and API automation. It took me about four months to develop, working on weeknights and weekends, and it was quite an adventure! Here are five lessons I learned while developing the app. Lesson One: Software development is hard; really hardYou’ve probably […]