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Month: November 2019

Don’t forget to look out of the window….

Don’t forget to look out of the window….

I guess like many people who live and work in work in tech centres around the world, on my journey by train I often pass people without anything so simple as a home to sleep in. At this time of year as the temperatures have plunged below zero at night I find this particularly upsetting, as they are almost always young and or suffering from mental health problems. Yesterday my wife sent me a picture of her church newsletter with…

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You don’t write scripts – you write software

You don’t write scripts – you write software

This entry is part 1 of 4 in the series Building a career in test as a developer

One of the things that really bugs me is when I hear anyone talk or write about writing test automation scripts. You see it on Twitter, in blogs and even on CVs and it always makes me twitch.

The problem for me is that there is an implicit ‘only’ in there that downplays the importance of writing test automation code.