Phil Kirkham on Atomic Spin

Breaking the Cash Register (By Accident and Not for Profit)

Think about how things could go wrong with your process. Are you sure bugs can't slip through? And if they do, how would you know and handle the situation?

Growing as Makers

Expand your Horizons: Change How you Think about Conferences

Don't take conferences for granted. They can give you breadth, push you to grow, and connect you to great people — if you go about them properly.

Exploratory Testing

More Ways to Test – A Tester’s Consistency Checklist

One of the tests I do is a consistency test, which is difficult to automate, and testing for it can unearth different sorts of problems.

Growing as Makers

Three Benefits of Speaking at a Conference

Attending conferences is a good way to learn expand your network, and if you go to one as a speaker, there are a few more benefits.

UX/Design Practices

You Want Me to Rotate My Device? Really?

You don't want errors to happen, but they will. The experience should be as painless as possible for the user—don't make a stressful time worse.

Personal Optimization

Three Tips for a New Conference Speaker

Three things that helped me prepare for a conference talk as a beginner—know the environment, involve the audience, and breathe.

Exploratory Testing

More Ways to Test – “Alarming” Problems You Should be Preventing

After discovering a storage problem on my alarm app, I created a checklist to prevent common problems in my own app development. Here are my top three.

Exploratory Testing

More Ways to Test – Quick Tests for Your Web App

So, you've got all your automated tests passing and are feeling good. Have you thought about and tested the following five things?

Exploratory Testing

The Day the F Went Missing

A few weeks ago, I was reading the latest Spin post and noticed that the "f" was missing from the word "find."

Exploratory Testing

More Ways to Test – Testing for App Consistency

If consistency between app and web portal is not always great, your users are going to notice. Pay attention to what your app is doing, and be consistent.

Personal Optimization

A Tester’s Christmas Carol

Reflecting back on my testing work made me think of Scrooge and his ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come from A Christmas Carol.

Exploratory Testing

Mind the Bus & Go on Red: Overcoming Biases and Assumptions

Want to overcome your biases and assumptions? Try setting aside a testing session where you deliberately do things differently and in different orders.

Phil Kirkham

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