Brent Jensen and I found some time together recently to talk about testing. For some reason, we decided to record it. Worse yet, we decided to share it! I suppose we’ll keep this up until we either run out of things to say (unlikely), or until the internet tells us to shut up (much more likely).
But for now, here’s Alan and Brent talk about Testing.
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Chris McMahon’s latest post (Just Fix It) proposes that as far as bug tracking goes, the best course of action is to skip the “tracking” part of the workflow and “Just Fix It.” I’m a huge fan of this approach and think that for the most part, tracking a large number of bugs in a…
Although I really enjoy talking about testing, I’m (purposely) speaking a lot less these days. I have a day-job that I love, and I like hanging out in the rainy Pacific Northwest. As of now (and I think a plan change is a long shot), I’m travelling to exactly one conference in CY13 (StarWest in…
Today has been an interesting day in American politics. Not sure what happens next, but I hope it gets better. Here are a few things I found this week that I thought were interesting. This post on PM & EM: Rules of Engagement echoes something I’ve noticed over the past several years – there’s a…
It’s that time of year again. It’s time for folks to fill out the annual State of Testing Survey. Remember that testing is an activity, and not necessarily a role, so if you’re involved in software, you probably have valuable input. I’m a bit of a Michael Lopp (Rands) fanboy – Managing Humans remains one…
If you read my blog, you’re probably already sick of me, but I’ll share a few links anyway. I gave a webinar a few weeks ago for the fine folks at EuroSTAR. Embedded recording is below. It’s a twenty minute ramble on ideas in testing. My laptop with the presentation was in front of me…
I’ve been thinking about how professional testers describe themselves. We have high level labels like Tester, SDET, or Quality Engineer, but beyond those (mostly meaningless) titles, many of us have our own personal missions or visions – the words we want people to associate with us. For example, my twitter bio is, “Long time software…
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Oh, God. This ought to be good.
I enjoyed the podcast. Thank you for sharing. Interesting insights from inside Microsoft.
Great podcast, guys! How do you document your test efforts in such a fast environment, like Brent described Bing? Alan, what challenges did you encounter on the Xbox that you never saw coming?
Can’t wait for Episode 2!
I love questions as podcast fodder – we’ll throw these on the list for ep. 3 (episode 2 is already recorded) – will post next Monday if all goes well.
Thanks for the feedback, folks. @Alan: I suspect Roberto wants us to yell at each other more. @Roberto: For me, this is like bringing a knife to a machine gun fight. Alan usually slaughters me. But if it will amp the entertainment value, I’ll take one for the team. 🙂 thanks for the feedback.