A great team

A couple of weeks ago I blogged about the cartoon tester’s 1^st year. One thing I failed to mention (purposefully), is the fact that over Christmas I accepted a new software testing job at a different company. I’m really excited about the role and looking forward to the new challenges! 

While deciding to accept the job, I knew I was going to find resigning and leaving my current job difficult. The reality has been much more difficult than I envisaged. I’m totally going to miss the people I work with. I’m especially going to miss my team. They are all absolutely great people and have made my job a lot easier over the several years we’ve been working together. Here’s a cartoon for my team… probably the greatest software test team there ever was…

How to Spot a tester in the making

CARTOON WARNING: My wife told me this cartoon is only funny to 6 year old boys...

What happens when Testers meet up???

Last year I attended a Tester Gathering in London that Tony Bruce organises, I was very impressed with the format and general atmosphere of the event - he's done a great job! So much so, that my colleague Adam Brown and I are now organising a similar event in Nottingham. With lots of help from STC, we are holding the first ever Nottingham STC Meetup on Feb 23rd.

• It will be free to attend and James Bach has kindly agreed to give a presentation!
• Please check Adam’s post with more details of the event.
• And register to the event at the STC meetup site

P.S. I say Adam and I are organising it, the truth is Adam is doing all the work!

 

The Dark Side of Bugs

the 'The Legendary' Pradeep Soundararajan

There is no doubt about it, today's cartoon was inspired by Pradeep Soundararajan. He's a bit of genius, you should check out his blog.
Recently, he emailed me about a couple of cartoon ideas. I love it when this happens, new ideas seem to trigger even more ideas. One negative side effect though, is I end up feeling like a pessimistic developer! There is no way I can meet the [cartoon] requirements, as I will understand the requirements differently to the way people think they have explained them. But not to worry, I always provide a prototype of the cartoon to check it meets some level of satisfaction/quality :o)
Anyway, this cartoon is my representation of Pradeep's idea. Thanks Pradeep!