16: Danielle Louise Warman: QA engineer at ASOS with a passion for fashion and technology

Danielle is a QA engineer with a passion for fashion and technology. She works at ASOS, one of the largest global online fashion retailers in the world. She shares her testing secrets with us, and tells us what’s it like to be a female engineer in a male-dominated field.

Her insight should inspire any young (or not so young) girls who are thinking about starting a career in technology, and encourage anyone listening that women can rock testing just as well as any dude.

About Danielle Louise Warman

Danielle is a QA engineer based in London. She works at ASOS one of the biggest global online fashion retailers on the world. Danielle also blogs about technology and fashion on her blog at nabbdit.com .

Quotes & Insights from this Test Talk

• Most common problem between QA and developers is communication
• Having QA co-located with developers and on the same team has massive positive impact on team
• Printing out BDD test and taking them to meetings can help non technical people to be able read them and understand what you are testing
• Make sure that most tests are unit tested first
• You should have mix of GUI, integration and unit tests
• Try not to automate everything
• Starting early, getting girls involved in programming probably the best way to boost number of women in technology careers

Resources

•  We Need More Women in Tech: The Data Prove It
• Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams~Lisa Crispin
• The Tester's Pocketbook~Paul Gerrard

Tools

• Specflow a behavior driven development tool for .NET

Connect with Danielle Warman

• Twitter: @ASOS_Dani
• Danielle's Blog: http://www.nabbdit.com/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniellewarman

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