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Are your highest value skills aimed at the right things?

There's a skill in spotting which of your activities are genuinely high value

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Ash Winter
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An experienced, community focused tester. Loves training, mentoring and helping teams with testability. Co-organiser: Leeds Testing Atelier, co-author: Team Guide to Software Testability.

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Gary Hawkes
Great conversation, thank you! I like the realisation of where to take advantage of peoples skills across the team. I admit, the dedicated automators I've worked with were better coders than testers. I've only worked with 1 quality engineer who could move between automation and exploratory testing with equal proficiency. So getting developers more involved in the automation, coaching from quality engineers and making sure we're using the right skills for the right levels of testing.

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@Gary. Appreciate you sharing this.

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