Five for Friday – December 16, 2022

Joey McAllister (favorite hashtag: #expectpants) recently talked with me (electronically) about critical thinking and learning. The interview is here in case you’re curious.

To Automate, or not to Automate, that is the question that confuses testers around the world. One tester may say, "I automate everything, I am a test automation ninja!". Another tester may say, "I do not automate, if I automate I fail to engage my brain properly in the testing effort!". Another may say, “I…

The background: I posted some thoughts on how I approach test strategy and what the term means to me a week or so ago. The Rat Pack had some questions on the post and I answered them. But the conversation made me realize that it may be beneficial if I take some time to talk…

We all made it through another week. Here’s some stuff for you to check out. Charity Majors is awesome – and so is her latest blog post advice to managers. Camille Fournier (author of The Manager’s Path) also had a great post this week on Boring Plans. Corey Quinn wrote a fascinating post on compensation…

I left out a couple of obvious things in my career post yesterday and thought I’d write them down before I forgot. Managers Yesterday, I wrote about the non-management career path for testers at MS. There is, indeed, a career path for managers – I just tend to talk about the non-management career path because…

I’ve been talking about meetings recently at work (I’m still giddy that have far fewer meetings to attend these days). I’ve had discussions about meetings for at least a decade, and they’re all about the same.People grumble about ineffective meetings, while others grumble about too many meetings. Some grumble about who should be in the…