Michael Close
Senior test engineer
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Michael Close has been working in testing since 2016, and despite covering a verity of test skills over the years he has a love of exploratory testing and a passion for accessibility testing.

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A tester's role in continuous quality
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Using Personal Data In Test Safely: How To Comply With the GDPR  image
Using Personal Data In Test Safely: How To Comply With the GDPR
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Using Personal Data In Test Safely: How To Comply With the GDPR
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Total Quality Management
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Definitions of Total Quality Management
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Nice one for encouraging Scott Kenyon during This Week in Quality. 

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Total quality management (TQM) is an organization-wide effort to "install and make a permanent climate where employees continuously improve their ability to provide on-demand products and services that customers will find of particular value."[1] Total Quality Management (TQM) emphasizes that all departments, not just production (such as sales, marketing, accounting, finance, engineering, and design), are responsible for improving their operations. Management, in this context, highlights the obligation of executives to actively oversee quality through adequate funding, training, staffing, and goal setting. Although there isn't a universally agreed-upon methodology, TQM initiatives typically leverage established tools and techniques from quality control. TQM gained significant prominence in the late 1980s and early 1990s before being largely superseded by other quality management frameworks like ISO 9000, Lean manufacturing, and Six Sigma.
Invest in test artefacts, they can last longer than the application's source code image
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An exploration of test artefacts in relation to information, knowledge and product maintenance.
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A manual software testing technique that focuses on repeatedly and intensively testing a certain section/module/feature of an application to ensure to ensure its robustness and reliability.
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Judy Mosely mentioned on TWiT how she loves the community stars. Others chimed in giving our Community Stars (algorithm) much love. I think it was Mariem who said that she gets a notification...
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Unpack quality coaching, job titles, happy paths, and pull request templates in an episode full of candid chat and personal stories
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