process

2 articles

• Jul 9, 2026

  A QA's first 30 days on a new project — how to ramp up without doing anything dumb

  Day one: unfamiliar product, confusing environments, and someone's already asking you to 'take a quick look at this feature.' A first-person take: fresh eyes as a resource with an expiration date, a week spent as a user, a risk map built from three questions to the team ('what breaks most often? what was the last incident? where are you afraid to touch?'), exemplary first bug reports, why criticizing processes in week two is the worst move, small finished improvements by the end of the month, and a 30-day checklist.

• Jul 2, 2026

  "How long will testing take?" — giving estimates without digging your own grave

  You blurt out "two days" in three seconds, and that number then lives for weeks — and gets used against you. A first-person take: why test estimation is a special genre (you're estimating the quality of someone else's work that doesn't exist yet), an estimate as a forecast with assumptions, decomposition instead of a single number, three points instead of one, a named buffer instead of "×2 just in case", and what to say when your time gets cut.