Maaret Pyhäjärvi
@maaretp.bsky.social
🇫🇮Tester of products and organizations. Regretful Manager. Exploratory tester, (Polyglot) Programmer, Speaker, Author, Conference Designer. She/Her. maaret@iki.fi
Blog! Yes, don't mind if I do. #19 on this listing, with relevance statistics relying on long-deleted twitter account. bloggers.feedspot.com/software_tes...
100 Best Software Testing Blogs and Websites in 2025 (QA Blogs)
100 Best Software Testing Blogs ⋅ 1. TestGuild Blog ⋅ 2. Software Testing Magazine - Unit, Functional, Load & Agile Testing ⋅ 3. Search Software Quality: Software quality news and advice
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March 18, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Blog! Yes, don't mind if I do. #19 on this listing, with relevance statistics relying on long-deleted twitter account. bloggers.feedspot.com/software_tes...
Fake screenshot alert! The message, my opinion, is very real though. All software consultants (with Finnish rate card) should invoice at least 100 euros.
Newer needs support and training, on their employees dime.
When customers switch contractors, consultants need time to find the next gig.
Newer needs support and training, on their employees dime.
When customers switch contractors, consultants need time to find the next gig.
March 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Fake screenshot alert! The message, my opinion, is very real though. All software consultants (with Finnish rate card) should invoice at least 100 euros.
Newer needs support and training, on their employees dime.
When customers switch contractors, consultants need time to find the next gig.
Newer needs support and training, on their employees dime.
When customers switch contractors, consultants need time to find the next gig.
[Blog] Remembering job interviews
visible-quality.blogspot.com/2025/02/reme...
Post about my top 8 memories from what I did for interviews for #tester positions. I've got coverage of experiences.
visible-quality.blogspot.com/2025/02/reme...
Post about my top 8 memories from what I did for interviews for #tester positions. I've got coverage of experiences.
Remembering job interviews
Ideas and experiences on software testing, software development, conference speaking and organizing.
visible-quality.blogspot.com
February 21, 2025 at 5:56 PM
[Blog] Remembering job interviews
visible-quality.blogspot.com/2025/02/reme...
Post about my top 8 memories from what I did for interviews for #tester positions. I've got coverage of experiences.
visible-quality.blogspot.com/2025/02/reme...
Post about my top 8 memories from what I did for interviews for #tester positions. I've got coverage of experiences.
Reposted by Maaret Pyhäjärvi
Any asshole can build an org where the smartest, most experienced engineers in the world can get shit done.
A truly great engineering org is one where normal, workaday software engineers, with decent skills and ordinary experience, can move fast, ship code, and move the business forward day by day.
A truly great engineering org is one where normal, workaday software engineers, with decent skills and ordinary experience, can move fast, ship code, and move the business forward day by day.
February 18, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Any asshole can build an org where the smartest, most experienced engineers in the world can get shit done.
A truly great engineering org is one where normal, workaday software engineers, with decent skills and ordinary experience, can move fast, ship code, and move the business forward day by day.
A truly great engineering org is one where normal, workaday software engineers, with decent skills and ordinary experience, can move fast, ship code, and move the business forward day by day.
To run a demo with an open source test tool today, I needed to start my day with getting the tool fixed with a new release. Who tests the tests rings true.
February 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM
To run a demo with an open source test tool today, I needed to start my day with getting the tool fixed with a new release. Who tests the tests rings true.
It's coming up, and I can't wait: #FroGSConf. A week from now, Saturday. I have a hands-on session in mind I want to run on #testing, but I also would like to do one on #QualityEngineering and the practical change to allow quality to be everyone's business. frogsconf.nl - it's free.
February 13, 2025 at 7:25 PM
It's coming up, and I can't wait: #FroGSConf. A week from now, Saturday. I have a hands-on session in mind I want to run on #testing, but I also would like to do one on #QualityEngineering and the practical change to allow quality to be everyone's business. frogsconf.nl - it's free.
Took popular To Do -app, tested it. Created an assessment scoring for it for recruiting purposes. With sample size of a dozen, median 33/98, max 51/98 for newbies. A few seniors already said they'd do this for me to score. If you want that, don't read the whole solution.
github.com/exploratory-...
github.com/exploratory-...
GitHub - exploratory-testing-academy/todoapp-solution: Contemporary exploratory testing of the various versions of To Do -app https://todomvc.com and solution to using it as an interview exercise.
Contemporary exploratory testing of the various versions of To Do -app https://todomvc.com and solution to using it as an interview exercise. - GitHub - exploratory-testing-academy/todoapp-solutio...
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February 10, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Took popular To Do -app, tested it. Created an assessment scoring for it for recruiting purposes. With sample size of a dozen, median 33/98, max 51/98 for newbies. A few seniors already said they'd do this for me to score. If you want that, don't read the whole solution.
github.com/exploratory-...
github.com/exploratory-...
There's appearance of success (local stories of success), without sustainable success over time in #TestAutomation. So I gave them labels and one-liners because this style of thinking helps me structure my ideas.
February 6, 2025 at 8:16 PM
There's appearance of success (local stories of success), without sustainable success over time in #TestAutomation. So I gave them labels and one-liners because this style of thinking helps me structure my ideas.
Comparing the feedback ChatGPT gives based on a screenshot to what a human (other than me) does in an hour. Wake up, one-up time. Tools like this are an external imagination. Use them, but don't rely on them alone.
February 5, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Comparing the feedback ChatGPT gives based on a screenshot to what a human (other than me) does in an hour. Wake up, one-up time. Tools like this are an external imagination. Use them, but don't rely on them alone.
Don't we all test demo versions of to do app for fun and write about it? visible-quality.blogspot.com/2025/02/that...
Turns out we don't need to seed bugs to find bugs. But we need better skills in analyzing functionality.
Turns out we don't need to seed bugs to find bugs. But we need better skills in analyzing functionality.
That Pesky ToDo app
Ideas and experiences on software testing, software development, conference speaking and organizing.
visible-quality.blogspot.com
February 3, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Don't we all test demo versions of to do app for fun and write about it? visible-quality.blogspot.com/2025/02/that...
Turns out we don't need to seed bugs to find bugs. But we need better skills in analyzing functionality.
Turns out we don't need to seed bugs to find bugs. But we need better skills in analyzing functionality.
#Saavutettavuus #Suomi. Käynnissä kaksi merkittävää laajennosta: uusi direktiivi ja uusi tulkinta. Toimenpiteet tiivistettynä: saavutettavuus kuntoon, saavutettavuusseloste kuntoon, ja aktiivinen raportointi puutteista.
January 31, 2025 at 1:13 PM
#Saavutettavuus #Suomi. Käynnissä kaksi merkittävää laajennosta: uusi direktiivi ja uusi tulkinta. Toimenpiteet tiivistettynä: saavutettavuus kuntoon, saavutettavuusseloste kuntoon, ja aktiivinen raportointi puutteista.
Listening to @annemariecharrett.com make the point that "quality engineering is not a testing model but an engineering model". It's a model that integrates quality practices, in a variety people don't always recognize as testing, into engineering.
January 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Listening to @annemariecharrett.com make the point that "quality engineering is not a testing model but an engineering model". It's a model that integrates quality practices, in a variety people don't always recognize as testing, into engineering.
In preparation for 'Testing strategies for business resilience 2025' today (info.saucelabs.com/business-res...), I am revisiting ideas that drive testing = strategy.
I have been collecting and structuring ideas that drive change, in mostly four categories.
I have been collecting and structuring ideas that drive change, in mostly four categories.
January 29, 2025 at 8:29 AM
In preparation for 'Testing strategies for business resilience 2025' today (info.saucelabs.com/business-res...), I am revisiting ideas that drive testing = strategy.
I have been collecting and structuring ideas that drive change, in mostly four categories.
I have been collecting and structuring ideas that drive change, in mostly four categories.
I have not managed to make sense of what to write here, what on LinkedIn and what on Mastodon. I am still mostly elsewhere even if I appreciate that here algorithm makes me happy by showing me the tech bubble I belong with.
January 28, 2025 at 8:52 AM
I have not managed to make sense of what to write here, what on LinkedIn and what on Mastodon. I am still mostly elsewhere even if I appreciate that here algorithm makes me happy by showing me the tech bubble I belong with.
Reposted by Maaret Pyhäjärvi
Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
January 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
12th time is not the charm but I represent, again, for the 12th time on Finnish Tester of the Year award. There were a few years in between when I refused them adding me as nominee, because it is silly how there are no other women (when there are LOTS). www.tieturi.fi/aanesta-vuod...
Äänestä Vuoden testaajaa 2024 - Tieturi
Kuka on Vuoden testaaja 2024? Vuoden testaaja on Tieturin ja TestausOSYn vuosittain jakama testauksen tunnustuspalkinto, joka nostaa esiin testauksen merkityksen ja sen huippuosaajat. Vuoden testaaja ...
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January 27, 2025 at 12:46 PM
12th time is not the charm but I represent, again, for the 12th time on Finnish Tester of the Year award. There were a few years in between when I refused them adding me as nominee, because it is silly how there are no other women (when there are LOTS). www.tieturi.fi/aanesta-vuod...
I used a phrase of "evidence of testing" and received questions on whether this means test cases, test logs and bug reports. My choice of words was intentional because it does not have to mean test cases, test logs and bug reports. I can imagine other ways of providing evidence.
January 24, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I used a phrase of "evidence of testing" and received questions on whether this means test cases, test logs and bug reports. My choice of words was intentional because it does not have to mean test cases, test logs and bug reports. I can imagine other ways of providing evidence.
Yesterday in a room of three senior testers who get regularly corrected they aren’t testers even though they are. We had one thing in common: we hold space for respect of testers with those continuous conversations.
January 22, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Yesterday in a room of three senior testers who get regularly corrected they aren’t testers even though they are. We had one thing in common: we hold space for respect of testers with those continuous conversations.
How many test frameworks the world needs? Apparently one more, always. Hovering on a conference on the test automation tools space makes it very evident that a lot of people have built their own test framework. Well, I did too, while reading this book: www.amazon.com/Build-Your-O...
Build Your Own Test Framework: A Practical Guide to Writing Better Automated Tests
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January 22, 2025 at 7:37 AM
How many test frameworks the world needs? Apparently one more, always. Hovering on a conference on the test automation tools space makes it very evident that a lot of people have built their own test framework. Well, I did too, while reading this book: www.amazon.com/Build-Your-O...
5th and last session on my Test Lead Unite -series of upskilling was today. I expect more conversation and less of intake, but FOMO being too wide audience for people to speak. So I regroup.
January 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
5th and last session on my Test Lead Unite -series of upskilling was today. I expect more conversation and less of intake, but FOMO being too wide audience for people to speak. So I regroup.
Turns out that when testers get to shift left (to time before the project), they don't know that defining bug tracking, test environments and details of processes and metrics aren't relevant conversations. Formulating a teachable approach to this, since I am mentoring it now.
January 15, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Turns out that when testers get to shift left (to time before the project), they don't know that defining bug tracking, test environments and details of processes and metrics aren't relevant conversations. Formulating a teachable approach to this, since I am mentoring it now.
There are two modes of high level test planning, and I am noticing that the default mode is DISTRUST. That leads to assigning efforts and responsibilities on a person called "tester" and creating a separate testing budget.
The mode I work for is TRUST. Agree on responsibilities and plan they hold.
The mode I work for is TRUST. Agree on responsibilities and plan they hold.
January 15, 2025 at 10:16 AM
There are two modes of high level test planning, and I am noticing that the default mode is DISTRUST. That leads to assigning efforts and responsibilities on a person called "tester" and creating a separate testing budget.
The mode I work for is TRUST. Agree on responsibilities and plan they hold.
The mode I work for is TRUST. Agree on responsibilities and plan they hold.
Looking at this years trainee program with 3rd day starting and 85 candidates listed, I find myself repeating: talent is equally divided, opportunity is not. There is no good way selecting one #testing trainee out of a list like this and I take comfort in *one at a time, with a steady stream*
January 15, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Looking at this years trainee program with 3rd day starting and 85 candidates listed, I find myself repeating: talent is equally divided, opportunity is not. There is no good way selecting one #testing trainee out of a list like this and I take comfort in *one at a time, with a steady stream*
New year, new mentoring activities. This spring I have selected from a few buckets. I have one from company organized leadership mentoring program. I have one who works where I work, and one who works at one of our customers, who were brave enough to ask me to mentor,
January 15, 2025 at 6:24 AM
New year, new mentoring activities. This spring I have selected from a few buckets. I have one from company organized leadership mentoring program. I have one who works where I work, and one who works at one of our customers, who were brave enough to ask me to mentor,
Discussing ‘smoke testing’ as a term of time of static scheduling of tests, that needs replacing with dynamic scheduling based on changes. There are very few reasons for flagging a set of tests ‘smoke’.
January 14, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Discussing ‘smoke testing’ as a term of time of static scheduling of tests, that needs replacing with dynamic scheduling based on changes. There are very few reasons for flagging a set of tests ‘smoke’.