Five for Friday – March 2, 2018

I’m a big fan of exploratory testing. I’ve used the approach long before I knew what it was called and think it’s the core of good testing. it’s so ingrained in the general approaches I’ve used in my career that I often don’t differentiate between exploratory testing and plain-old-testing (I’ve gone as far to say…

I chuckle a bit every time I see a tweet or a blog post talking about how some attribute is uniquely important for anyone wanting to be successful in a software role – when in reality, there are many professions where these attributes help lead to success. I’m not saying the attributes aren’t important, but…

Here’s some stuff I liked this week. I’m going to prepare a talk for TestFlix – you should too. Speaking of presentations, I am using Pitch for my Testflix presentation – I’m not doing a lot with it, but it seems to work well Once upon a time, I wrote the daylight saving time detection…

I’m surprised that many people are still asking me what an angry weasel has to do with software testing. The answer, of course, is nothing. I’m surprised however, how many people can visit my site at angryweasel.com/blog and never check out plain old angryweasel.com (where I happen to share the story of where the name…

Test conference season is upon us, and so begins the onslaught of “slides” from  powerpoint / keynote / (google docs presentation app whatever-it’s-called). I have seen hundreds of presentations on a wide variety of subjects over the years and thought I’d share what I know about what a presentation tells you about the presenter. The…

For some reason, I have a lot of friends from the UK (could be soccer, could be Microsoft – I don’t know). I hang around them enough to know not to look down when someone says “Pants”, and that “sixes and sevens” have nothing to do with math. Learning the subtleties took time, and I…