A lot of talk in the testing industry still focus on that divide between “automation” and “manual testing.” A lot … More Scrutinize, Stabilize, Sustain →
https://testerstories.com/2024/01/scrutinize-stabilize-sustain/
I was giving a presentation to developers as well as engineering hiring managers who make decisions around hiring test practitioners. … More Reframing Testing Arguments →
https://testerstories.com/2023/12/reframing-testing-arguments/
I’ve talked in the past about my perception that specialist testers need to be cross-discipline associative. And while I’ve implicitly … More The Social Dimension of Testing →
https://testerstories.com/2023/11/the-social-dimension-of-testing/
There’s a lot of talk out there about using large language models to help testers write tests, such as coming … More AI-Powered Testing: Exploring and Exploiting with Reinforcement →
https://testerstories.com/2023/10/ai-powered-testing-exploring-and-exploiting-with-reinforcement/
One thing that’s often interesting is to define foundational terms within your discipline. It’s often even more interesting when you … More What Actually Is Testing? →
I often frame whatever role I’m in as a Quality and Test Specialist. It’s not really a term or phrase … More My Role as Quality and Test Specialist →
https://testerstories.com/2023/09/my-role-as-quality-and-test-specialist/
In this final post of this series, we’ll look at training our learning model on our Emotions dataset. This post … More Text Trek: Navigating Classifications, Part 6 →
https://testerstories.com/2023/08/text-trek-navigating-classifications-part-6/
This post, and the following, will bring together everything we’ve learned in the previous four posts in this text classification … More Text Trek: Navigating Classifications, Part 5 →
https://testerstories.com/2023/08/text-trek-navigating-classifications-part-5/
In this post, we’re going to look at the Emotions dataset that we briefly investigated in the previous post. Here … More Text Trek: Navigating Classifications, Part 4 →
https://testerstories.com/2023/08/text-trek-navigating-classifications-part-4/
In this post, we’ll explore some particular datasets. The focus here is just to get a feel for what can … More Text Trek: Navigating Classifications, Part 3 →
https://testerstories.com/2023/08/text-trek-navigating-classifications-part-3/
Here we’ll continue on directly from the first post where we were learning the fundamentals of dealing with text that … More Text Trek: Navigating Classifications, Part 2 →
https://testerstories.com/2023/08/text-trek-navigating-classifications-part-2/
Let’s start this “Thinking About AI” series by thinking about the idea of classifying text. Classifying, broadly speaking, relates to … More Text Trek: Navigating Classifications, Part 1 ...
https://testerstories.com/2023/08/text-trek-navigating-classifications-part-1/
Most testers are aware of the idea of a “test case.” What people outside of testing often don’t know is … More The Very Idea of Test Cases →
https://testerstories.com/2023/08/the-very-idea-of-test-cases/
Many are debating the efficacy of artificial intelligence as it relates to the practice and craft of testing. Perhaps not … More Thinking About AI →
Following on from computing eras but before getting to my “Thinking About AI” series, there’s one intersection I’d like to … More Keeping People in Computing →
https://testerstories.com/2023/08/keeping-people-in-computing/
This post will be a bit of a divergence from my normal posting style although very much in line with … More Computing and Crucible Eras →
https://testerstories.com/2023/08/computing-and-crucible-eras/
We come to the third post of this particular series (see the first and second) where I’ll focus on an … More AI Testing – Generating and Transforming, Part 3 →
https://testerstories.com/2023/07/ai-testing-generating-and-transforming-part-3/
This post continues on from the first one. Here I’m going to break down the question-answering model that we looked … More AI Testing – Generating and Transforming, Part 2 →
https://testerstories.com/2023/07/ai-testing-generating-and-transforming-part-2/
The idea of “Generative AI” is very much in the air as I write this post. What’s often lacking is … More AI Testing – Generating and Transforming, Part 1 →
https://testerstories.com/2023/07/ai-testing-generating-and-transforming-part-1/
An interesting discussion came up on LinkedIn recently regarding the idea of whether automated tools “find bugs” and I actually … More The Abstract Battle for Irrelevancy →
https://testerstories.com/2023/07/the-abstract-battle-for-irrelevancy/