Five for Friday – February 14, 2025

Inspiration for my blog posts often comes from whatever’s evoking emotion in my life (annoyances, victories, gripes, etc.). Three things happened today that ensured that I’d write this post. Here’s the story of a question from a seven year old, a phone call, and an email. The first incident was a common one. My son…

Back for another week – remember, if you would like an email version of FfF, you can sign up here (nvm – it’s broken again) Charity Majors shared a fantastic deck on continuous delivery – worth checking out. Two from fellow today, becuase I don’t think I ever called out the Super Managers podcast. Every…

Back for another week full of random links from everyone’s second favorite mad rodent. It’s no secret that I think no-code solutions for UI automation is the only viable path. Autify is one of my favorite companies in this space – and now they can afford to do even more. My newfound love of Ted…

In music, the better you are at the basics, the better you are on the bandstand. Even the pro musicians I know practice almost every day. I think testers (and developers) forget the value of practice too often. In The Passionate Programmer, Chad Fowler suggests doing the exercises on CodeKata. I checked them out, and…

I’d like to elaborate on something from a previous post on SDETs at Microsoft. One thing that is perhaps a bit different about the test role at Microsoft is its tie to the career path. We are, for better or worse, big believers in career growth and expect growth in scope and impact from all…

I’ve been talking about meetings recently at work (I’m still giddy that have far fewer meetings to attend these days). I’ve had discussions about meetings for at least a decade, and they’re all about the same.People grumble about ineffective meetings, while others grumble about too many meetings. Some grumble about who should be in the…