Five for Friday – April 24, 2020

I just realized that it’s almost Halloween. That means this weekend I either need to buy candy, or blackout curtains so I can pretend I’m not home. I’ll keep you posted. Here’s the usual list of 5 things on the internet I think are worth sharing. Thanks for reading, and once again, I hope you…

A former colleague of mine (a former manager, to be exact), recently blogged about the plight of the SDET as second class citizens earlier this week. I was going to reply to the post right away – then I was going to reply in a blog post, but in the end I decided to wait…

I’m going to do one more (I think) post on this subject. Markus asked the following about my latest post: But how do I answer the question for “what’s the coverage of your testing?” for a multiple component-based application, consisting of a C/C++ major component, an application server, and customized business logic? The answer is…

It’s Friday, and according to my calendar, just over four weeks until our local mask mandates go away. While I understand that this is an important milestone, I think I’m going to keep wearing masks at the gym (the only place I go), and wait and see what happens. In other news… Related to the…

I think a true passion for learning is one of the things that makes testers great. The best testers I know are always looking for concepts or viewpoints they haven’t heard before and looking for opportunities to learn anytime they can.But it’s usually not enough to just to want to learn – you need some…

A month or two back, Amazon began sharing BookScan information with authors. I can now see  how many copies of How We Test Software at Microsoft are selling (US only, and Nielsen BookScan only tracks the large-ish book sellers) – but it’s still sort of cool. I can’t help but wonder who in Houston bought…