Podcast:https://joecolantonio.com/testtalks/198-testing-and-planning-for-the-unknown-with-kinga-witko/
The podcast that I had listened to for this week was again by Joe Colantonio with guest host Kinga Witko. The two first begin with talking about what Kinga does for a living and as a job. She speaks about the difficulties of her job and how demanding it can be. She also discusses how laws that differ from the U.S to Europe can affect how your testing goes in a job like hers. Afterwards, Joe talks about one of her youtube videos and how she states that you need time for big fixes. She specifically talks about the hardest thing people do not understand is the comprehension behind their project or software being a whole. Many tend to divide their project in two sections, so when they need to do deal with bugs or fixes, they see as something completely separate from their core features. People think that bugs are different from functionality, which is wrong, Kinga expresses. She then goes on to give tips on how to be aware of this. To know that testing is part of the process and bugs should not be part of a separate bit. One tip that she recommends is that a tester should always keep in mind that they should 25%/30% of each task/ development task for something which is unexpected. This doesn’t mean that it has to be a bug, it may be an environmental issue, or something you can not predict from the beginning. She also mentions that people should state problems early on, to avoid risks of even more problems. Lastly, her best approach for testers is to do exploratory testing. Get along with exploratory sessions and try to think outside of the box.
There were a lot of reasons why I really liked this article. The biggest being was that she was a women talking about testing, and computer science as a whole. All of the podcasts that I have listened to thus far have all been by men. I do not mind that because I knew from this beginning that this was a male dominated field, but I am always looking for female coders or testers. I also really liked that she was from Poland because I have not heard/ listened to any European CS people. What she had to say was even more interesting. Even I myself, who has not worked on hardcore projects for a job so far, feel like I already separate my projects into certain areas. I like that she was big on trying to keep it as a whole. A lot of her tips and tricks were very interesting to hear.
