Five for Friday – November 20, 2020

I’m sure by now that most people who want to have seen the webinar I gave last week on test design (if not,the recording is here and slides are here). I had a few goals in this presentation. One I stated clearly – this presentation was primarily about the how of Test Design – not…

If you want to skip the preamble and get to the point, just page down to the end of this post. The professional software testing community has a good support network of web sites dedicated (or partially dedicated) to answering questions about testing. Some of my favorites are: MSDN Testing Forums  SQA Forums Software Testing…

Once again, I’m a day late, but who am I kidding – you read these on Monday anyway. This is a great article on why we’re so bad at software engineering As a self-proclaimed change agent, this article on change programs was interesting Ministry of Test is doing some podcast interviews with upcoming speakers. This…

I had a burst of traffic on my blog last week when 10’s of eager internet users stumbled across my little rant fest. I try to avoid traffic for traffic’s sake (past experiences tell me that I could merely comment half-heartedly on any of the sacred subjects of the testing world and generate a significant…

Between Netflix, Amazon Prime, and a busy schedule, I’ve gone without cable television for the last five or so years…up until a month or so ago when I bit the bullet (for a variety of reasons), and added a television package to our existing internet service. It’s working great so far, but the story about…

On request from Adam Goucher – another excerpt from How We Test Software at Microsoft.  BTW – Adam wrote a review of HWTSAM here – although Linda Wilkinson beat him to the clever title. This is from a section on quality in chapter 16. It’s something I believe strongly in and would love to hear…