Software Testing & Automation

In your next stand-up, instead of talking about what tasks you've done or not, talk about the stories. Figure out what state the story is in, what needs to be done to complete the story, what the blockers to those things are. 1/2

"A real tester should not be the same as a programmer." Really? Let's turn it around, IME a *real programmer* is also a skilled tester. Testers that can't do anything else strike me as too limited. On a cross-functional team, they'll create internal bottlenecks.

Many testers seem determined to create a test silo—a secret society with a special handshake that excludes devs & other team members. That sort of exclusionary mindset seems dysfunctional to me. Same problem with #UX and other "specialties." Silos are the enemy of collaboration.

If you can't write a user story in a tweet, it's too big.

The distinction between testers and devs is entirely artificial. It comes from thinking that testers are somehow lesser than devs, so you can pay them less and need to segregate them from the high-paid (more valuable) devs. That's nonsense. Devs & testers are the same people.