We love a good TWiQ episode that celebrates the wins. And in today's episode we did just that. So here goes, we celebrated the following wins... Diana Dromey ran her first ever 10k, goin...

A celebratory 'wins' episode full of community milestones, personal breakthroughs, bug catches, career confidence, and the many small moments that keep the MoTaverse moving.

Default thinking is the natural, preferred approach for a tester when they look at a problem. It is the familiar path the mind takes based on its knowledge and experience. Everyone has their own starting point that feels comfortable. Whatever it is, it is just the first step of thinking. Default thinking is not wrong. It is a habit, shaped by experience, that develops over time. The important part is recognising that this first step is only the beginning of thinking. Testing becomes deeper when you think from different perspectives. Once you pass your starting point, you can choose to explore in other ways. There are many mindsets to learn, and you can strengthen your thinking with practice. The aim is not to remove the natural tendency. It is to expand it. When you understand your default, you can use it as a starting point rather than a place to stay. This gives you the freedom to choose the mindsets that best fit the problem.

Couldn’t resist these socks 

All things related to my visual heuristic

After 10 years, I'm retiring my website, The Big Test Theory.com. When I blog or share anything, it is on the MoTaverse and / or on LinkedIn. I've not posted anything on there for about a year, so ...

On the 15th of January 2026 myself and Ujjwal Kumar Singh joined a call and pressed record. We were curious to see what would happen. A few weeks later I’d done the same with Neil Taylor and Clare ...

Imagine driving with a GPS that updates every second versus one that recalculates every ten minutes. Both eventually get you to your destination, but one helps you correct mistakes almost immediately. Feedback density is how frequently your team receives useful information that helps it make better decisions.This is what feedback density is. It is the amount of useful learning a team generates over a given period of time. A team with high feedback density learns continuously through questions, reviews, testing, monitoring, and collaboration. A team with low feedback density spends the same amount of time working but learns much later, making mistakes more expensive to fix.Hanisha Arora

I think I first played darts when I was around 12. So I only had to wait 48 years or so to hit my first maximum at darts. Hope the second doesn’t take that long lol

Grateful for the wonderful artwork for the Leeds Chapter of MoT