Devnology Podcast 048 - Emma Armstrong

In this episode we talk about software testing with Emma
Armstrong. We talk about what makes a good tester, and we discuss
testing katas as a way to introduce and practice
testing.


Emma is a test engineer and all-round do-gooder at Red Gate
Software and has been baking quality into software for over 13
years. In that time she’s gotten her hands dirty with both manual
and automated testing and had the opportunity to dig into
everything from compilers to web applications. She’s worked with
most methodologies, gotten to grips with technologies ranging
from chipset hardware to UI (and everything in between), managed
test teams and is currently working on one of Red Gate’s latest
developer tools.
Follow Emma on twitter: @EmmaATester


This interview was recorded on the 4th of October 2014 at the
Devnology Community Day at the AFAS offices in Leusden.
Interview by @freekl and @daan_van_berkel
Links for this podcast:

More on the testing katas in this article : Be deliberate
about improving your testing skills

Emma occasionally blogs on http://taooftesting.co.uk

Emma mentions various testing techniques such as Boundary
Value Analysis and using Testing Oracles

Smartbear have published some testing katas on API testing
here

Emma also mentions adoption of The Three Amigos (BA,
developer & QA) process

Emma mentions Markus Gärtner, who recommends
http://testing-challenges.org as a great source of ideas for
Testing katas.



 


This podcast is in English - Deze podcast is in het
Engels