Neil Taylor | Comments

Bug Congrats Gary! Look forward to hearing all about your new role on a future TWiQ episode!

Bug Congrats Simon! It was a pleasure to be one of the first to have the chance to contribute to your new idea! 😀

Thank you both for sharing your conversation. The whole topic of the friction that can restrict and holds us back within a development team is definately worth exploring more. For me the biggest challenges I find are around the cognitive impact of too much context switching, managing conflicting priorities and getting a good balance between helping people and knowledge sharing.

Thank you for sharing this Adam. Some while ago I moved to recording testing sessions using VS Code and Markdown format (I like it as it works quite easily for screenshots and console output) and I've never quite settled on the categories to include in my report. I have to say I wasn't aware there was a Mark-map plug - but it gives a nice visual representation of the session! Also I like the way your template groups the findings.

Thank you for writing this article, as Gary mentioned many of us are no doubt facing similar challenges in our roles so its great you have explored this topic in detail. I certainly can identify with the challenge of too much context switching, it is especially a problem if you have a lot of product knowledge and it is important to find effective ways to manage it (for example sharing knowledge, protecting focused testing time.)

That is brilliant!!! 😃.

Thank you Rahul and Judy for your kind comments and your support and encouragement!

I really enjoyed reading these blog posts in 2025, looking forward to your new posts this year! There are so many good ideas and thoughts in them.

It was great to chat to you yesterday Simon. I'm pleased to be part of a community that takes a different and a better approach to support learning and growth.

It was great to meet and chat to you in person at MoTaCon Rahul.

Thanks Simon. The first post should be there now: https://musicandtesting.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/motacon-2025-the-conference