Passion vs. Profit
Why do you come to work every day? Do you enjoy the work you do? Does what you do help others, or contribute to society in a meaningful way? For physicians and other healthcare professionals [...]
Women Who Test
In May of this year, I graduated from Carleton University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and almost immediately started my career at PLATO as a Junior Tester. Since then, I have had the [...]
Security Testing Literacy
Let’s take a moment to talk about Security Testing and why I think it’s incredibly important for every project to undergo this type of testing. By now, I’m sure you’ve heard of a few cases [...]
“The Magic of Testing”
A yvrTesting Blog For the second year in a row, yvrTesting took part in the TeamSTAR Competition 2017 in collaboration with EuroSTAR Conferences, Europe’s largest software testing conference. This year’s theme was “The Magic of [...]
The Next Stage of Software Development Enlightenment
Talk to any product or development manager and chances are they'll go into great detail about their approach to building software: Agile, extreme programming, scrum, test-driven, feature-driven development, behavior-driven development, lean, and the list goes [...]
The Roles of a Career Software Tester
Whilst there may be many things to be jealous of when looking at successful actors, one of the aspects of their job that I’ve been most envious of are the opportunities to play multiple roles [...]