Career Paths for Testers Using Personas

I’m excited to experiment with Github Chaos Actions – I came across them last weekend in this article. Yes, I think I will link to yet-another Michael Lopp blog post. This time it’s a post about your mid-year leadership checkin. This post on the dystopian world of software interviews is on the money. This is…

“Hey – can you set up a repro of that bug for me?” As a tester, how many times have you heard this phrase? How many times have you walked through the steps you outlined in the bug report so someone could look at an error for you? Or – how many times have you…

The cat’s out of the bag – I’m popping out of my no-conference bubble, and making an appearance at a testing conference (STAR West in October). The theme of the conference is “Be a Testing Rock star”, and while I think that theme begs for an appearance from Michael Larsen, I’ll do my best to…

Back for another week of random links. I’ll skip linking to interesting chat bots, because maybe a chat bot wrote this post… But probably not. That’s all for this week – thanks for reading. Oh – and if you missed it on twitter, I want to start blogging again, but want to pre-rebuild a community…

In case you missed it (because I only mentioned it on twitter), I have another article up on Sticky Minds this week. Here’s the abstract: Many testers have been involved in post-ship decisions about bugs that "got away"–bugs that escaped testing and found their way into customer’s hands. Often, these post-mortem discussions end up with…

This has been a wild week in this timeline – but beyond the US political drama, a few other interesting things caught my interest. Another week done – have a great weekend.