MKE SPIN Event

Last night I went to a QA event hosted by MKE SPIN which is a local organization that puts together regular meetups for tech-related topics. Last night was a Quality Assurance Panel Discussion with four panel members who have all been in the industry for a number of years, providing some differing opinions on the...

The one with the Instagram profile

It's official, I've started an Instagram profile for all my QA findings in the world. Follow me @lifeofatester. Here's how it all started. After blogging for over a year, I found that there were so many things that kept presenting themselves to me (as all bugs do) but they were so random and one-off that...

Sufficiently Designed

We all have those times when you're web searching and come across a website that is from the 90s, that hasn't been updated since. The moment it loads you feel repulsed, and many of us immediately click the back button on our browser, because we know we will not find any helpful information. Unfortunately, I...

Whoops, My Text Bleeds Off the DropDown

I always laugh when the big guys do it. Companies like Kohls, Target, Dell, Newegg, CBS, ABC, Disney, and so many more all struggle with bugs in their software. Not that they are any less prone to bugs than the rest of us, but for some reason I just feel like the big guys should...

Why, Target, Why?

It's an every day occurrence that I am doing something that forces out a verbal "WHY?" I'm not entirely sure what it is, if things just find me, if I'm an extremely picky person, if everything around is us so full of bugs and everyone catches them, or if the design of something I am...

It’s been a little while

Unfortunately my writing hasn't happened in about three months time, but the amount I think about writing increases with each passing day. It's funny that we miss things when we love them but don't get to do them. I recently had a conversation about career development and that led to a discussion about my future...