Hell of a Tester

In spring I wrote about a big change on my career , continuing to work as a tester but changing almost all other aspects of the working context, the aspects being: From - Customer acceptance testing role into Developing our own products - Waterfallish into Agilish project models - Business oriented & simple into Mission critical & complex domain - 8000km from developers into a Few meters from developers - Consultant into Employee - Non-technical into Technical So how has it been? Comparing my new job between the jobs in the organizations I've previously worked for isn't really possible, or fair, due to the many contextual differences (trust me, I worked on a blog post comparing the differences for a long time until eventually scrapping it). But still there are huge changes that have happened to me as a tester, which I'll briefly discuss here. Information over-flow The biggest change has happened regarding getting information on the contents of the...

(My first blog writing ever.) I've been thinking a long time that it's funny how many bugs I find by accident. Try to do something, make a mistake and boom - a bug is found.  Making the mistakes intentionally doesn't quite work - that's why they are called accidents I guess.. So I've thought of ways to make myself more prone to accidents, coming up with an apparent one; testing drunk. TUI (testing under the influence). So this I gotta try. More to come on that later.