Five for Friday – September 16

Summer’s here, but good stuff keeps on happening. Here are 5 things I found interesting this week: Chris George wrote a great article on how he’s applying Modern Testing at his job. Not a new article, but new to me. Why being right doesn’t matter. Also not new, but something I watched this week and…

When I meet new people, they often ask, “what do you do?” The answer I give initially, and the one I hope to get away with is, “I work at Microsoft.” It rarely works. They inevitably follow up with, “what do you do there?” – which, for better or for worse is a much more…

Last week I came across this article about Samsung fixing an SMS bug in their software. For the most part, it’s the typical “we found a bug and we’re fixing it” story that are just a bit too common in the news these days – but I was struck by this line: Another annoying bug…

More random stuff I enjoyed this interview with Lee Atchison – particularly check out his answer regarding DevOps Joel Montvelisky wrote a nice article on Focusing More on Quality and Less on Testing Mike Cohn is one of my heroes – and he’s giving a free webinar on Tuesday So…Microsoft has an “open source hub”…

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…

For some reason, I have a lot of friends from the UK (could be soccer, could be Microsoft – I don’t know). I hang around them enough to know not to look down when someone says “Pants”, and that “sixes and sevens” have nothing to do with math. Learning the subtleties took time, and I…