Five for Friday – September 20, 2019

What a difference a decade makes. Amazon tells me that Dec. 10, 2008, is the release day of How We Test Software at Microsoft. Before I reflect on the content, take a look at this photo from the back cover: Or this one from a few months later at Barnes & Noble: I’ve aged (at…

Although I’ve tried to avoid writing about test automation since publishing The A Word four years ago, I suppose I should probably take some time soon to add a few more chapters before the book (like my last one) becomes largely obsolete. Not too long ago, I posted some predictions. In those predictions, I said: Testers writing…

Here are a few of my favorite articles I found this week In case you missed it, I wrote something. This article on Maximizing Developer Effectiveness is excellent and full of great ideas. I try not to re-post every Michael Lopp article, but this one, like many others, is worth sharing. Like a lot of…

I’d like to announce my candidacy for…no – not that kind of politics, I thought I’d drop a few comments on office politics. Too often, people see “politics” as the evil underbelly of the corporate world, and that competency in office politics requires that you can backstab your coworkers with no remorse, find a variety…

In 2003, Brian Marick introduced the concept of “Agile Quadrants” to describe the scope of testing[1] (later expanded on by Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory[2]). Several people (including me) have expanded and elaborated on the quadrants to describe the scope and activities of testing. Here’s a version of the testing quadrants. One challenge I’ve seen…

I shared an article on rotten automation on the testproject blog here – https://blog.testproject.io/2017/11/07/somethings-rotten-test-automation/ A was also part of of Engel Jones 12-minute podcast series. My interview (very little about testing) is here – https://twelveminuteconvos.com/alan-page/