Five for Friday – May 21, 2021

It’s been a heck of a year. I joined a new team at MS fourteen months ago, and it’s been the busiest fourteen months of my career. To be fair, I worked more hours during my stint in Xbox One, but the role I’m in now has even more responsibility (more on what that means…

I first heard of “10x” software development through the writings of Steve McConnell. Code Complete remains one of my favorite books about writing good software (The Pragmatic Programmer, Writing Solid Code, and The Clean Coder are also on that list). Steve McConnell’s rarely updated blog (titled 10x Software Development, contains the following tagline: Numerous studies…

I read this article over the weekend about five emerging trends in software testing – Test Automation; Rise of mobile and cloud; Emphasis on security; Context-driven testing; and More business involvement. I fully acknowledge that I work in a software development environment that isn’t like many others, but while reading the article, I really didn’t…

My last two posts (one on Tester DNA, and the most recent on worries about the future) were written in isolation. The started the DNA post many months ago, and the future at least a year ago. I started and stopped completing the posts several times since their inception before finally completing them. For a…

I implied at the end of my last post that I’d follow up after my keynote (I failed – sorry). This was a weird conference for me. While I attended nearly all of the keynotes, I only made it to a few other sessions, and didn’t have as much time to hang out with folks…

It’s the Friday the 13th edition of FfF. Here’s some stuff to read. A few months old, but new to me and something I believe in strongly – Good Developers are Raised, not Born. I’ve been a fan of Sonos speakers for years now, and I’m bummed I don’t really have any need to purchase…