JosephWard.tech @JosephWardTech

I test software and have strong but weakly held opinions about software testing. josephward.tech Bristol, England Joined December 2015

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Sponge Bob Test Pants @RobMeaney

2 years ago

My approach to software product delivery revolves around discovering the least amount of work we need to do to: 1. Validate & understand the problem. 2. Solve the problem. 3. Delight the customer. Often we have to iterate through step 1 many times before we get to step 2.

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JosephWard.tech @JosephWardTech

2 years ago

#blogged: Harmonising Selenium with Playwright and Cypress: A Journey Through Network Event Handling. I presented this at Test Talks Wales last week and received positive feedback. What do you think? #softwaretesting #qa #selenium josephward.tech/2024-01-21-har…

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JosephWard.tech @JosephWardTech

2 years ago

blogged: Designing a Sub-1kb Homepage: A Challenge in Imagination and Purposeful Coding Approach josephward.tech/2023-05-02-des… #blog #software

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JosephWard.tech @JosephWardTech

2 years ago

#CoronationBigLunch

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JosephWard.tech @JosephWardTech

3 years ago

Blogged: Green software testing. #bjss #blog #sofwaretesting #qa bjss.com/engineering-in…

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JosephWard.tech @JosephWardTech

3 years ago

Even if proprietary software has a greater market share, OSS will always come out on top. You're going to have the rug pulled out from under you. Postman to limit collection runs to 250/month (including those run on your own infra) w/ professional license. community.postman.com/t/250-collecti…

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JosephWard.tech @JosephWardTech

4 years ago

When in doubt, go with your gut.

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JosephWard.tech @JosephWardTech

5 years ago

Tech purism only survives in whitepapers, blog posts, and other ivory towers. #SoftwareEngineering #softwaretesting

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JosephWard.tech @JosephWardTech

5 years ago

I find it strange that many people extol the benefits of cucumber/gherkin in creating "human readable" specifications but, when asked, have never thought about using it collaboratively. And typically can't name any humans who ever actually read what they write. #softwaretesting

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George Dinwiddie ([email protected]) @gdinwiddie

5 years ago

When people say "best practice," they have some assumed context in mind. Of course nothing is always best, everywhere, for everyone. To understand what they intend, you need to understand what context they're imagining and whose point of view in that context.

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Titus Fortner @titusfortner

5 years ago

@joecolantonio @testguilds @SeleniumHQ I haven't used the new IDE, but it didn't implement anything that changes my fundamental objections to *all* codeless automation tools. They aren't good enough to effectively maintain large test suites. Creation costs low, maintenance costs high. @mmerrell has evaluated recently

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JosephWard.tech @JosephWardTech

5 years ago

I’m once again grateful to @BJSSLtd for making people feel safe and valued during these confusing times. Very happy to be part of the (still growing) Bristol team! #bristol #softwaretesting

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JosephWard.tech @JosephWardTech

5 years ago

We're not in Kansas anymore: the yes/no/maybe dichotomy of testing in the machine learning pipeline. 😖#machinelearning #softwaretesting

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JosephWard.tech @JosephWardTech

5 years ago

Another great @south_west_test meetup, this time with @michaelbolton and "Not So Great Expectations". crowdcast.io/e/michael-bolt… #softwaretesting

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JosephWard.tech @JosephWardTech

5 years ago

Testing highlight of the week: debugging something that turned out to be looking for the strings "True" or "False" and not the boolean true or false. #softwaretesting

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JosephWard.tech @JosephWardTech

5 years ago

This morning I cracked an issue in 5 minutes. It took me an hour to not fix it yesterday evening, so I guess sometimes knowing when to quit is the best thing you can do... #softwaretesting

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JosephWard.tech @JosephWardTech

5 years ago

How do I put this? Sometimes you’ve got to test. Not talk about testing, not agonise over planning, but get stuck into adding value as fast as possible. josephward.tech/2020-06-29-let… #softwaretesting #blog