Bonnie Bailey

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Bonnie Bailey is a software test engineer for a health care information technology company. Bonnie is an avid reader of fiction and non-fiction, including software design, testing and development, disruptive and emerging technologies, business leadership, science, and medicine. She also enjoys writing.

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Testing

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United States

Bonnie Bailey

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	Testing Wins Should Come through Mastery, Not LuckBonnie Bailey writes that as testers, some of our track record will be pure luck—for better or for worse. We should, however, strive to test well enough that users must be crafty to cripple the software we stamp.
	The Software Testing Draft: Skipping Certain Players and Reforming OthersBonnie Bailey describes how assembling a great software testing team isn’t just about finding the right players; it’s also about reforming or perhaps weeding out the not-so-great players. Squashing certain negative traits found on the team (or preventing those traits from entering the team in the first place) is vital for everyone’s success.
	You Don't Need Superb Technical Skills to Be a Valuable TesterTesters who question their own technical ability have more to contribute to technical tasks than they realize because such tasks often don’t require as much technical ability as they think. Bonnie Bailey explains that growth comes through trial and error and plenty of reorienting around dead ends.
	Test Documenting Over the CliffUnless you're in a test role where full, complete documentation is necessary in order to be federally compliant or to keep people from dying or losing a limb, attempting to document every little thing is a fool's errand. Software changes. A lot. With constant change, what we document one day may be obsolete the next.