Testing Smarter

I’m a fan of The Pragmatic Programmer, and often use the parable of boiled frogs (which I first read in that book) when talking about organizational change. The concept is simple enough – rather than put the frogs (people) in boiling water (changing everything at once), put the frogs (people) in cool water; then slowly…

I think I’ve fully recovered from my long walk. My home office is a a mess right now, but I’m hoping this weekend is the time when I finally get everything put away. In the meantime, here are a few articles I found interesting this week. Thanks again for reading, and hope you found something…

We are approaching the midpoint of 2024 already. While you ponder that, here are a few things that interested me this week. And that’s another week – thanks for reading.

How did it get to be the middle of March already? Here are a few things worth sharing this week. That’s it -a busy weekend coming up in weasel-ville, but I should be back with 5 more bits of random trivia when I return.

Chris McMahon (who has an extensive music background) recently gave a wonderful presentation at SoftwareGR where he stated: The work of a performing artist is exactly the same as a functioning agile team. He goes on to explain that it isn’t a metaphor – it’s exactly the same thing. And I believe him. Later in…

I’ve  been thinking a lot lately about what’s next in software testing. What are the new ideas in testing? What is our role in the future of quality software? How do we advance the state of the art in testing? But I worry. I think forward thinking will come from highly experienced testers with a…