Rosie Hamilton

Testing

At the Agile North East Lightning Talks Competition I had 8 minutes to tell a room full of people how to help testers succeed.

Rosie Hamilton · 19^th Apr 2017 · 2 min read

Tech

Creating My First Web Application with Go

How I used Go to create a web app that would help me practice violin scales.

Rosie Hamilton · 28^th Feb 2017 · 8 min read

Testing

Foreign Currency Trading Heuristic Testing Cheat Sheet

After 18 months testing FX trading software I decided to create and share a heuristic cheat sheet to help explore trading apps.

Rosie Hamilton · 15^th Jan 2017 · 1 min read

Testing

Deconstructing Test Bash with R - Twitter Mining and Sentiment Analysis

How I used R to collect and analyse all of the tweets made about Test Bash Manchester, a recent software testing conference.

Rosie Hamilton · 9^th Nov 2016 · 7 min read

Testing

Test Bash Manchester 2016

I was lucky enough to attend Test Bash Manchester recently. This is my first hand report of the experience. Find out what happened when testers from around the world all came together to talk about testing.

Rosie Hamilton · 25^th Oct 2016 · 7 min read

Testing

Learning to talk - Finding your voice and telling a story

Having never given a technical talk before, I agreed to speak in public then found myself figuring out how I was going to do this.

Rosie Hamilton · 27^th Sep 2016 · 6 min read

Testing

Exploring Data - Creating Reactive Web Apps with R and Shiny

I developed a web application to enable exploration of the data collected by a survey of software testers. I explain how R and Shiny can be used to create reactive web applications which make data accessible to a wider audience.

Rosie Hamilton · 3^rd Aug 2016 · 6 min read

Testing

A snapshot of software testers in 2016

Continuing my research into Software Testers I examine how and why people are getting into testing careers and present a snapshot of testers in 2016

Rosie Hamilton · 4^th Jul 2016 · 8 min read

Testing

A study of software testers

I decided to do some research into testers and the challenges we face in the work place to find some answers. These are some my findings.

Rosie Hamilton · 5^th Jun 2016 · 8 min read

Testing

The Lonely Tester's Survival Guide

How to stay fresh, focused and super effective when testing alone

Rosie Hamilton · 9^th Mar 2016 · 6 min read

Testing

Data Mocking - A way to test the untestable

Some of the biggest challenges when testing software can be getting the software into some very specific states...

Rosie Hamilton · 8^th Feb 2016 · 4 min read

Testing

Know your bugs

Six annoyingly awkward bug patterns that every tester should know...

Rosie Hamilton · 18^th Jan 2016 · 2 min read

Testing

Automating bacon sandwiches

When deciding which tests to automate, one criteria commonly used is to identify simple repetitive tasks that are performed often. This morning while completing my bacon sandwich order form I realised that this was a relatively simple task that I repeat each Friday morning.

Rosie Hamilton · 19^th Oct 2015 · 4 min read