Author Archives: Beth Marshall

I took on a 2 month assignment to work as a QA Relations person – here’s what I learned.

I’m very *very* excited to finally be able to say it out loud. As you may have heard, I’ve now left my previous role as Staff Quality and Test Engineer at Smoothwall. I’m genuinely thrilled to announce that for the next 2 months I’m going to be helping the team at Michigan based email testingContinue reading “Announcing my new role as interim QA Rel at Mailinator!”

In this very personal post, Beth sets out a template you can use to answer the question “what are you looking for in your next testing role?”

What’s been going on? Yesterday (13th October 2021) was a big day in the Selenium world. 4.0 has finally made it as a stable release. What does this mean for me? According to the recent Mabl state of devOps report, Selenium is the tool of choice for the overwhelming majority of survey respondents using aContinue reading “A simple guide to upgrading to Selenium 4.0”

In this short blog post, I discuss my views on a recent Testing in DevOps report from a testers perspective.

Look at the rules, not the exceptions Now in its 8th year, the SOT Report provides testers with some valuable trend-based information on all things testing. The full report in all of its chart based glory was delivered today, and is well worth bookmarking. You can read the full report here. Sometimes, when attending meetups,Continue reading “What I learned from Practitest’s State of Testing Report 2021”