All Stories

Tester got blamed

• A Small Minority
• Accepted Risk
• Appropriate Error Message
• Blocked by QA
• Flaky Checkout
• It Was in the Requirements
• Just Test the Happy Path
• More Evidence
• No QA Required
• Please Retest
• PowerPoint Recovery
• Production-Like Test Data
• Read-Only Access
• Regression Scope
• Safari Support
• Severity Negotiation
• Signed Off
• Tested by the Developer
• Testing Delayed the Project
• The Bug That Became a Feature
• The Controlled Demonstration
• The Defect Workshop
• The Feature Flag
• The Friday Defect Count
• The Friday Release
• The Green Status
• The Known Issue
• The No-Blame Review
• The Risk Owner
• The Tester Who Broke Nothing
• The Two-Day Estimate
• UAT Sign-Off
• User Error
• We Don’t Need Testers
• Works on My Machine
• Wrong Build

Tester actually did it

• A Genuine Tester Update
• Fastest Regression Ever
• Forty-Seven Defects
• From a Developer
• My Finest Test Case
• The Automation Suite
• The Copied Defect
• The Defect Filter
• The Environment Defect
• The Final Evidence Pack
• The Financial Defect
• The Missing Button
• The Payment Stub
• The Production Email Test
• The Shared Password
• The Smoke Test
• The Test Customer
• The Two-Pixel Defect

Testy Tips

• Ask What Changed Before Retesting
• Ask What Else Uses the Component
• Challenge Works on My Machine
• Check the Response Body
• Check the Test Data Before Blaming the Code
• Get the Business Rule from the Business
• Group Defects by Root Cause
• Make Automated Tests Fail
• Name the Release Decision-Maker
• Put the Build Number in Every Defect
• Record the Exact Time
• Record the Recommendation and Decision Separately
• Reproduce from a Clean Starting Point
• Save the Original Requirements
• Separate Severity from Priority
• Test How Users Abandon the Journey
• Test Retry Behaviour Deliberately
• Test with the Weakest Permissions
• Verify the Deployment Before Retesting
• Write Expected and Actual Results