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Penny Wyatt

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.

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.

By Penny Wyatt, Sarah Goff-Dupont

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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...

By Penny Wyatt

In Archives

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...

By Penny Wyatt

In Inside Atlassian

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....

By Penny Wyatt

In Archives

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...

By Penny Wyatt

In Archives

Testing and Bad Smells: When to Investigate Potential Bugs

This guest blog post is part of an Atlassian blog series raising awareness about testing innovation within the QA community. You can...

By Penny Wyatt

In Archives