Five for Friday – September 4, 2020

Yes – it’s more of Brent and Alan yelling at each other. But this time, Brent says that he, “hates the Agile Manifesto”. I also talk about my trip to Florida, and we discuss estimation and planning and a bunch of other stuff. Subscribe to the ABTesting Podcast! Subscribe via RSS Subscribe via iTunes

It’s smack in the middle of summer in Seattle – which means it rained most of the week. Here’s what I read while watching the clouds. Cindy Sridharan is back with another fantastic blog post – this time on Distributed Tracing There are few things I loathe more than a status meeting. Here’s an article…

Some updates and clarification below. And a NEW HINT below too Recently, I was discussing the diagnostic, debugging, and troubleshooting aspects of software testing, and this morning, while playing with Visual Studio 2012, I created a quick little exercise where the solution relies on these skills. This zip file contains an app (theapp.exe), and the…

Despite the lame title, this isn’t yet another post attempting to describe what testing is – it’s just something I wanted to share inspired by a small discussion last night (although if you browse the testing blogosphere, you’ll find a lot of good discussion on this topic lately). I went to Seth Eliot’s talk at…

Happy New Year everyone. I took some time off for the holidays, and it was glorious. While I managed to stay away from my computer most of the time, I did get a reasonable amount of Xbox and Netflix time in, so I didn’t neglect the screen in any way. But I’m back to reading…

It’s the FfF travel edition In the past ten days, I’ve been in Copenhagen, Bastad (Sweden), back to Copenhagen, Montreal, and I’m currently waiting to board a flight from Minneapolis back to Seattle. I’m re-reading High Output Management by Andy Grove. So far, it’s as good as I remember. I sort of read a lot…