Five for Friday – April 15, 2022

My last post (from what I’m told) ruffled some feathers in my old team. I actually find that odd given how well known the types of actions I mentioned are among that team. I live my life as if everything is a learning experience. I mean that – everything. I don’t regret my time on Teams for…

I give presentations to teams at Microsoft often. Some teams want a talk on a specific topic, and other teams just ask me what I want to talk about. It’s a good opportunity for me to try out different ideas and see if they have merit. I imagine only 10-20% of these talks would have…

I left a few of my Nest devices in the old house, but after some shopping around, decided to re-up my Nest usage with a v3 thermostat, and a Nest lock to augment some of the replacement devices. We’ll see how it goes. Other than soccer, I don’t watch a lot of TV. But I…

This post isn’t really testing related, so skip it if that’s what you’re looking for. Late Saturday night, I returned from my first trip to Israel. I was invited to present at the Intel Software Professional’s conference in Tel Aviv a few months back, and I gave an updated version of my STAR East 2010…

It’s a non-lovely hot and smoky day in the Seattle area. I hope everyone is staying cool and safe out there no matter where you are. Here’s some stuff I found on the internet this week. I thought this article on deadline driven behavior with scrum was pretty interesting. I’ve seen orgs paralyzed by attempting…

I answered a few questions this week about automating GUI tests. One question was about recommendations for GUI automation tools for non-coders, and the other was about how much time to spend on the GUI in an MVC (model-view-controller) application. The answers were easy. In the first case, I said that they weren’t going to…