Secrets of SDET Success

Happy New Year everyone. I took some time off for the holidays, and it was glorious. While I managed to stay away from my computer most of the time, I did get a reasonable amount of Xbox and Netflix time in, so I didn’t neglect the screen in any way. But I’m back to reading…

I’m back after an interesting walk in the woods (more on that – probably – in my angryweasel.substack.com post tomorrow). In the meantime, here are a few things I found interesting recently. That’s all for this week – thanks for reading.

Greg Paciga talks about demoing things that aren’t done – or that don’t work. He’s right – but what’s weird is the heat he took for saying that on twitter Mike Cohn (of the automation pyramid fame) asks Three Questions to Determine if Your Organization is Agile Yet another really nice article from Jeff Nyman on hiring…

Some thoughts from me over on Inder Singh’s blog if you’re interested (in the article as well as in the comments). More from STAR East later this week.

I implied at the end of my last post that I’d follow up after my keynote (I failed – sorry). This was a weird conference for me. While I attended nearly all of the keynotes, I only made it to a few other sessions, and didn’t have as much time to hang out with folks…

I’m in Hyderabad, India this week to meet with some of our team and to give a handful of presentations at an internal conference. The weather is wonderful this week – it’s warm during the day and cool at night. I got to the hotel around 2:00am Tuesday morning, but got a few hours of…