Alan and Brent are /still/ talking…

I’m sitting in a hotel room in Munich. I’m slightly jet lagged (I’ll recover by tomorrow), but feeling better than I’ve felt in a week. I’m feeling so good, in fact that I have an abundance of "things" I feel like writing about. If you don’t want to read a non-testing related post (or partially…

Readers of my blog know my stance on UI automation. But, as I’ve forgotten my StickyMinds password, and the answer is longer than 140 characters, so I’m responding here. This article from Justin Rohrman talks about the coolness of Selenium for UI testing. In a paragraph called, “Why the UI”, Justin wrote: The API and…

It’s that time of the week again – here are a few things I found that you may like. I liked this post from Mike Cohn on High Performing Teams. This is a really cool bug from a Unity customer on The Worst Bug Ever. Another good lessons learned post on Building a Portal for…

When I meet new people, they often ask, “what do you do?” The answer I give initially, and the one I hope to get away with is, “I work at Microsoft.” It rarely works. They inevitably follow up with, “what do you do there?” – which, for better or for worse is a much more…

Quote I’m pondering: “Anyone operating with a theory of leadership that assumes that experts know what is best, and that then the leadership problem is basically a sales problem in persuasion, is in our experience doomed at best to selling partial solutions at high cost” – Heifetz, et al in The Practice of Adaptive Leadership. I’ve…

Last week, I posted a small testing challenge (in short, an application wouldn’t launch).Shmuel Gershon has a wonderful write up of how he found the problem here. For those too lazy to read, the problem was that the application attempted to read a reg key on launch, and failed to launch (with no diagnostics) if…