@offbeattesting

Dad | Husband | Tester | LinkedIn Learning Author | Thinking creatively about the testing part of delivering high quality software.

 Brantford, Ontario
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Joined March 2013
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Great conference at #TQ2022 yesterday. Nice to get out in person again. Lots of great speakers and great interactions! Thanks @KWSQA for taking the risk in an uncertain world on putting on an great event
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The internet is failing you! What can a tester do about it? offbeattesting.com/2022/09/0…

Deep Testing

The internet is failing you! What can a tester do about it?

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I was prepping for the @ministryoftest #APIChallenge and recorded an exploratory testing session while I tried to figure out how the API worked. I made a brand new youtube channel just to share it. Let me know what you think! youtu.be/xKeGpOR0ZbQ via @YouTube

Exploratory Testing An API

This video shows and exploratory testing session I did as I prepare...

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Shortcuts can get a bad rap from testers, but are they always bad? offbeattesting.com/2022/08/1…

How to Sabotage Quality: No Shortcuts

Shortcuts can get a bad rap from testers, but are they always bad?

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KWSQA@KWSQA11 Jul 2022
We're so excited to welcome our speakers to #TQ2022: @AGareev @dsynadinos @offbeattesting @glennanderson @GregPaciga @thechainmailguy @larissar @MazinInaad @Revelzen @sergiocoltest @TheyWrestleTest @FionaCCharles @g33klady Visit kwsqa.org/tq2022/schedule/pr… for their session info!
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My Personal Quality Principles offbeattesting.com/2022/02/1…

My Personal Quality Principles

I’m joining a new team at work, and as I do so I’ve taken some time to reflect on how I want to contribute to the team. Obviously some of that will be specific to the context of the tea…

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Tool Independent Testing: Best Practices🔎 In this article, @offbeattesting explores the idea of tool independent testing🧐 and how you can best use it to drive a better feedback loop. ↪️Read the article: specflow.org/gherkin/writing…

Welcome to ShiftSync – Your Hub for Quality Engineering | ShiftSync Community

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Writing Words and Software offbeattesting.com/2022/01/1…

Writing Words and Software

If the point is get your code out there so that you can have as many dollars as possible, it seems less likely to me that you are actually releasing in a way that is doing good in the world. Rapid …

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I want to see us get better at making sofware that acutally enhances people's lives. Not just better adoption or more users or even higher customer satisfaction ratings. Software that truly makes lives better. offbeattesting.com/2022/01/0…

Broken People; Broken Software

Some of the brokeness in this world comes from software and if we testers won’t take the time to point it out who will? It time to shift the culture of tech. It’s time to stop treating …

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Read all these interesting insights on testing shared by @offbeattesting here: bit.ly/3mzC0FP #softwaretestingcompany #qatesting #automationtesting #technology #business #startup #businesssolutions #expertcolumn #tech
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Ever feel like your test automation is a waste of time? Maybe you're trying to solve the wrong problem! Check out my latest post on the @TestProject_io blog blog.testproject.io/2021/06/…
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Queuing Theory and Testing offbeattesting.com/2021/06/1…

Queuing Theory and Testing

Since there is always more work to be done than there are people available to do it, without some other mechanism to bubble up those older tickets they will languish forever.

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Check out my conversation with @joecolantonio on performance testing. I had a lot of fun doing this! Maybe I should start a podcast someday (like I don't have enough to do 😂) testguild.com/podcast/perfor…

Performance Testing Foundations with Dave Westerveld

About this Episode: Slow loading times can drive users away from even the coolest of websites or applications. But how […]

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New post on the @TestProject_io blog! blog.testproject.io/2021/05/…
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I’m an Author? offbeattesting.com/2021/05/0…

I’m an Author?

I guess in a way I have been an author for a long time. I’ve been blogging for many years, and I have published a lot of video courses, but there is something about writing a book that makes …

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Check out my newest article published on the @TestProject_io blog. Lego kids, and testing. What better topics to combine? blog.testproject.io/2021/04/…

Learn: Software Testing 101

We've put together an index of testing terms and articles, covering many of the basics of testing and definitions for common searches.

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New Post on TestProject Blog offbeattesting.com/2021/03/2…

New Post on TestProject Blog

When you have a powerful tool, you don’t need to avoid it. Rather, you need to learn how to wield it well.

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Creating Schema for an API offbeattesting.com/2021/01/1…

Creating Schema for an API

From the outside, software development and magic are indistinguishable. Of course, with enough time you can understand how it works and for those of us who have made it through the frustration of l…

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Getting started with the Open API Specification offbeattesting.com/2020/12/0…

Getting started with the Open API Specification

The second time we found it, the bug was expensive to fix. Could we have prevented that regression? Can we create regression tests for our designs?

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Getting Started with API Specification Languages offbeattesting.com/2020/11/1…

Getting Started with API Specification Languages

The quest for ever higher levels of abstraction never ends in computing. I used to work at a company that still ran some FORTRAN code. Although out of date now, the invention of FORTRAN in the 1950…

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