Hell of a Tester

Keeping up to the deal with my colleague Mili for the total 52 posts during year 2018, this is my sixth one (Mili blogs here http://meeleetester.blogspot.fi/ ).  I am not really in the mood of finishing any of my draft versions and do not have solid things on my mind that I would want to write about. So I thought to do a little retro of my past week, with the classic glad - sad - mad pattern. (nice machine to help coming up with other ideas to retro's here https://plans-for-retrospectives.com/ btw). Here goes: ************** personal retro week 11 Sad Had to spend very much time on solving issues and questions coming from support and stakeholders A lot of people away from office this week Meal on the lunch on new restaurant sucked Few things on "my own backlog" stuck the whole week Lost a query to a report I did couple of months ago that was asked from me again, need to redo Could not do the mob programming sessions I had booked Another problem with Git (...

I've been thinking quite a lot about tester's moving to do test automation.  Lately beause of these three things: 1.  European testing conference , a great testing conference I attended couple of weeks ago. It is very cool due to many things; the way the speakers get compensated, the focus on the conferring side of conferences making it very easy for people to discuss stuff, the way the talks are chosen, and because there are also a lot of developers joining. So anyway when I was talking with several of the attendees, it was a bit strange how it was easier for me to talk about the product development as a whole with the developers, where as with the testers it more naturally moved into talk of automation and tools. Also on the open space, I think the majority of the topics pitched was automation or tool related. And quite little on the process or on the customer facing side of product development.  2. In my company there are a lot of different products and...