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Penny Wyatt

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I’ve been a QA Engineer at Atlassian since 2009, working on JIRA and OnDemand. In a previous life, I was a Software Development Engineer in Test at Microsoft.

What’s my avatar? It’s a creature called a “creeper” from the game Minecraft. Creepers are infamous for mercilessly destroying creations that players have worked tirelessly to build. I see them as misunderstood QA engineers.

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The guide to workplace communication channels you didn’t know you needed

A cheat sheet for using each channel effectively – no matter where your desk is.


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Inside Atlassian – How QA makes development faster

This post is part of a series of blogs on Atlassian QA. We will cover how the QA strategy has been implemented in different teams, the tools and techniques we use, and the personal experiences from members of the team. Traditionally, software QA is often seen as an impediment to software development; a necessary evil that […]


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Inside Atlassian: the Jira QA process, techniques and tools

This post is part of a series of blogs on Atlassian QA. We will cover how the QA strategy has been implemented in different teams, the tools and techniques we use, and the personal experiences from members of the team. The Jira engineering team is large, consisting of 78 developers and team leads, 10 product managers, […]


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Equivalence Partitioning in Practice – Part 2

Introduction Yesterday in Part 1, we looked at what equivalence partitioning is and how we use it in Jira QA. In Part 2, we will cover how equivalence partitioning might explain some odd behaviour you’ve noticed from your friendly neighbourhood QA/test engineers. Explaining QA behaviour Here are some symptoms of equivalence partitioning that you may have […]


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Equivalence Partitioning in Practice – Part 1

The Challenge When testing even the most basic user-facing functionality, the set of possible test cases is almost unlimited. Let’s say we’re testing a form in Jira where you set the current user’s display name. If we look at it from a completely black-box perspective, the possible test cases are something like: Total test cases […]