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My Journey as Test Lead for WordPress: Growing, Learning, and Feeling Grateful
WordPress 6.9 has been out for more than a week now, and I’m still soaking in the joy of being part of the release squad once again. This time, I got to co-lead testing with Jonathan, and the whole experience has been incredibly satisfying. Honestly, it’s one of those moments where you pause and think, “Wow……
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Laptop Crash? Here’s How AI Helped Me Get Back to Work Fast
A few weeks ago, my laptop gave up on me. I had to send it to Mac Care, and when it came back, everything was gone. Since the issue was with the motherboard, there was no way to recover my old setup.🙆♀️ At first, I felt completely overwhelmed. Over the years, I’ve carefully built my…
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Debugging MailHog in Docker: The Networking Fix I Wish I Knew Earlier
I ran into a MailHog Docker networking issue while testing a WordPress Core ticket, I needed to verify email functionality in my local development environment using MailHog. I am using the wordpress-develop Docker setup, so I assumed setting up MailHog would be simple. To test it, I first installed the Check & Log Email plugin.…
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Why Do Testers Ask So Many Questions?
You ask too many questions and slow the team down,” a PM once told me. But asking questions is core to testing — not just many questions, but the right ones. In this post, I share why testers ask so much, how those questions prevent failures, and what happens when they’re not asked at all.