Maaret Pyhäjärvi
@maaretp.bsky.social
🇫🇮Tester of products and organizations. Regretful Manager. Exploratory tester, (Polyglot) Programmer, Speaker, Author, Conference Designer. She/Her. maaret@iki.fi
[Blog] Talks-to-articles. A Practitioner's Guide to Contemporary Exploratory Testing dev.to/maaretp/a-pr...
A Practitioner's Guide to Contemporary Exploratory Testing
This is a write-up of a keynote I delivered at Axiom Summit in 2022. It is one of my favourite...
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[Blog] Breaking what you thought you knew about testing in 30 minutes visible-quality.blogspot.com/2026/08/brea...
Breaking what you thought you knew about testing in 30 minutes
Ideas and experiences on software testing, software development, conference speaking and organizing.
visible-quality.blogspot.com
[Blog] Comparing Blue, Yellow, Red, Pink and Purple - How are they Different visible-quality.blogspot.com/2026/07/comp...
Comparing Blue, Yellow, Red, Pink and Purple - How are they Different
Ideas and experiences on software testing, software development, conference speaking and organizing.
visible-quality.blogspot.com
[Blog] Capture the bugs - Feedback on learning how to test visible-quality.blogspot.com/2026/07/capt...
Capture the Bugs - Feedback on learning how to test
Ideas and experiences on software testing, software development, conference speaking and organizing.
visible-quality.blogspot.com
Been creating a self-assessor for testing exercise *capture the bugs* with Ru Cindrea. exploratory-testing-academy.github.io/capture-the-... We have now two coverages: input classes and bug reports included. Track your inputs versatility and our ability to produce results to learn to test better.
[Blog] Appropriate speed for the conditions, deliberately visible-quality.blogspot.com/2026/06/appr...
Appropriate speed for the conditions, deliberately
Ideas and experiences on software testing, software development, conference speaking and organizing.
visible-quality.blogspot.com
[Blog] Faking plans is easier than fighting plans visible-quality.blogspot.com/2026/06/faki... I wrote about accepting fake plan while doing the work with an actual plan, separating concerns and AI work slop making collaboration worse.
Faking plans is easier than fighting plans
Ideas and experiences on software testing, software development, conference speaking and organizing.
visible-quality.blogspot.com
[Blog] The numbers and stories visible-quality.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-... Just the two incoming achievements this week: 30% savings for a client. 25 000 € annual savings for a client. And the numbers that help me stay sane with the kind of work I have with too many people.
The Numbers and the Stories
Ideas and experiences on software testing, software development, conference speaking and organizing.
visible-quality.blogspot.com
In days of twitter, a post made a point of the many hats of a product owner. In a response, I formulated the many hats of testers. Today I am asked to again contribute to making decisions on how we describe fair and shared career paths for testers in an organization where we're scaled.
What I know you may not know. What I know might not be all that I could know from the facts that I have available. #ExploratoryTesting is about all these, not just unknown unknowns.
This year on Bluesky I wrote 35 posts and 16 replies. I received 59 likes, whereas 5 was from my most popular post, and apparently I love saying "testing"! www.madebyolof.com/bluesky-wrap... (I was pretty much not on here but on mastodon - thinking about changing that for 2026)
maaretp.bsky.social's Bluesky Wrapped 2025
Check out maaretp.bsky.social's year on Bluesky!
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My blog, visible-quality.blogspot.fi, has 317k page views in 2025. It was not a particularly active year of blogging. It was not an active year of promoting anything I wrote into the blog. Is this how much more crawlers for freely available content we have now?
Thinking about how to invest the little time I have, and if I should revisit the ideas that drive this for me. I don't really know the impact of speaking to an audience (and people doing something inspired/learned from it) vs actually speaking to one person, yet the world moves with one on ones.
Blog! Yes, don't mind if I do. #19 on this listing, with relevance statistics relying on long-deleted twitter account. bloggers.feedspot.com/software_tes...
100 Best Software Testing Blogs and Websites in 2025 (QA Blogs)
100 Best Software Testing Blogs ⋅ 1. TestGuild Blog ⋅ 2. Software Testing Magazine - Unit, Functional, Load & Agile Testing ⋅ 3. Search Software Quality: Software quality news and advice
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Fake screenshot alert! The message, my opinion, is very real though. All software consultants (with Finnish rate card) should invoice at least 100 euros. Newer needs support and training, on their employees dime. When customers switch contractors, consultants need time to find the next gig.
[Blog] Remembering job interviews visible-quality.blogspot.com/2025/02/reme... Post about my top 8 memories from what I did for interviews for #tester positions. I've got coverage of experiences.
Remembering job interviews
Ideas and experiences on software testing, software development, conference speaking and organizing.
visible-quality.blogspot.com
Any asshole can build an org where the smartest, most experienced engineers in the world can get shit done. A truly great engineering org is one where normal, workaday software engineers, with decent skills and ordinary experience, can move fast, ship code, and move the business forward day by day.
To run a demo with an open source test tool today, I needed to start my day with getting the tool fixed with a new release. Who tests the tests rings true.
It's coming up, and I can't wait: #FroGSConf. A week from now, Saturday. I have a hands-on session in mind I want to run on #testing, but I also would like to do one on #QualityEngineering and the practical change to allow quality to be everyone's business. frogsconf.nl - it's free.
Took popular To Do -app, tested it. Created an assessment scoring for it for recruiting purposes. With sample size of a dozen, median 33/98, max 51/98 for newbies. A few seniors already said they'd do this for me to score. If you want that, don't read the whole solution. github.com/exploratory-...
GitHub - exploratory-testing-academy/todoapp-solution: Contemporary exploratory testing of the various versions of To Do -app https://todomvc.com and solution to using it as an interview exercise.
Contemporary exploratory testing of the various versions of To Do -app https://todomvc.com and solution to using it as an interview exercise. - GitHub - exploratory-testing-academy/todoapp-solutio...
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There's appearance of success (local stories of success), without sustainable success over time in #TestAutomation. So I gave them labels and one-liners because this style of thinking helps me structure my ideas.
Comparing the feedback ChatGPT gives based on a screenshot to what a human (other than me) does in an hour. Wake up, one-up time. Tools like this are an external imagination. Use them, but don't rely on them alone.
Don't we all test demo versions of to do app for fun and write about it? visible-quality.blogspot.com/2025/02/that... Turns out we don't need to seed bugs to find bugs. But we need better skills in analyzing functionality.
That Pesky ToDo app
Ideas and experiences on software testing, software development, conference speaking and organizing.
visible-quality.blogspot.com
#Saavutettavuus #Suomi. Käynnissä kaksi merkittävää laajennosta: uusi direktiivi ja uusi tulkinta. Toimenpiteet tiivistettynä: saavutettavuus kuntoon, saavutettavuusseloste kuntoon, ja aktiivinen raportointi puutteista.
Listening to @annemariecharrett.com make the point that "quality engineering is not a testing model but an engineering model". It's a model that integrates quality practices, in a variety people don't always recognize as testing, into engineering.
In preparation for 'Testing strategies for business resilience 2025' today (info.saucelabs.com/business-res...), I am revisiting ideas that drive testing = strategy. I have been collecting and structuring ideas that drive change, in mostly four categories.
