What is it? Why is it important for a tester? Let’s have a look into American Psychological Association’s dictionary: experimenter effect any influence a researcher may have on the results of his or her research, derived from either interaction with participants or unintentional errors of observation, measurement, analysis, or interpretation…

Building GitHub workflows can be painful because it’s not so easy to test them locally and see if they run correctly or need changing. Fortunately there is act. Before diving intoact, I’d also recommend using YAML or GitHub Actions VS Code extensions. Both can provide some intellisense for GitHub workflows…

There are probably an infinite number of things one can do to become a better tester. These two things I’ll share helped me. Maybe it will become useful to you as well. You can take the ideas and make use of them in your own way. The first practice I…

I listened to some of Robert Sabourin’s videos on testing and he shared three approaches to quality. I found that interesting since people mostly talk about quality but it’s rarely defined, so I’ll share those three definitions of quality in this post. Quality as conformance to requirements This one speaks about requirements. I find that…

Packages get old, security bugs are founds, new versions are released. It’s a good practice to find out what packages in my project are outdated, so I can take actions and update them to newer versions if that’s desirable. I’m sure there’re many different tools for that. One of them…

If you are involved in developing or testing a global product, sooner or later you’ll stumble upon time zones. I did some testing with time zones last week and then I looked a bit more into the topic, including the tz database. …

In recent months, it’s been hard for me to follow what some other testers have to say about testing. I find a lot of online content imprecise or wrong in a way that it gives wrong ideas about testing. One example from a few days ago. I went to watch…