Questions answered
- How do you persuade those in control of finances to pay out for tools which would make your life better, or able to do something you couldn’t do otherwise?
- What tool has helped the most with your career thus far? e.g. In terms of helping on a role, or landing new roles
- What tool did you have high hopes for, but was surprisingly disappointed in, and why? Doesn’t have to be bad, just not up to expectation.
- How do you stop people trying to have one tool be a hammer that is used for everything, even if it isn’t the best fit for everything?
- How to broach the subject of a previous company employee has gone so far down the road on “X” product you are suggesting binning “X” time of testing development away?
- Running theme of #30DaysOfTools is being tool aware. How do you keep up to date with new tools and releases of tools?
Items shared during the discussion
- How do you convince your team/company to invest in tools? – 30 Days of Tools, Day 12
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fOdX6fS42A
- https://medium.com/the-new-economy-by-parsons-school-of-design/letting-go-of-sunk-costs-before-they-drag-you-under-40dff9f2e227
- https://testguild.com/podcasts/
- AB Testing • A podcast on Spotify for Creators
Unanswered questions
- Role play: I’ve just become your new test lead/manager and told you that we are moving to tool A. You currently have lots of automation with tool B and want to keep it. What do you say to me?
- Whats the critera for choosing a tool? Is one tool good enough for UI and API?
- Do you use tools like FileAid RDX to extract / generate test data? Or do you implement your own “test data management solution”?
- Do you find you have a problem and look for a tool to solve it, or do you hear about a tool, and look for how you can use it?
- What signs/heuristics do you use to identify if a tool is still fit for purpose?
- What’s you favourite chrome plugin, and why?