Five for Friday – March 22, 2019

I’m heading off for a long vacation today, so this is likely my last post of the year. It’s been a crazy year, and I thought I’d end it with something that a lot of my recent posts have been leading to (e.g. this post on tearing down the walls). Some of you will hate…

Like last week, this week has had some ups and downs. In between the long days and questionable decisions, I found (or was sent) a few links that I liked. Thanks again for reading – see you all next week.

I wrote about using virtual machines for testing in hwtsam, and gave a talk at STAR West a few years back on using virtual machines for testing. What I remember most about the talk was the group of VMWare employees sitting about 10 rows back (I think to ensure that I didn’t say anything bad…

If you ever want to start a great discussion / debate with a group of testers, ask them to define quality and come up with measurements.“Quality” is such an overloaded term that it’s hard to get people to agree. The Weinberg fans (I suppose I’m one of them) will cite their mentor and say “Quality…

I had a twitter conversation this week about roles this week. I’ll recap it – and expand on my views; but first I’ll tell a story. Very early on in the Windows 98 project, I was performing some exploratory testing on the explorer shell and found an interesting (and slightly weird bug). At the end…

I chair an advisory council for a community of senior testers at Microsoft. We have a variety of events ranging from talking heads to open space events to panels to whatever type of event we think is the most different than the previous one. Yesterday, we had our fifth annual “soapbox” event, a lightning talk-ish…