Career Paths for Testers Using Personas

Recently, I spent two weeks working remotely (i.e. far, far away from my office). The opportunity was there, and I happen to work on a product that makes working (and interacting) remotely straightforward. Since I know some of you who read this blog work remotely (and others would like to), I thought I’d share some…

Here’s a story I hear often. The names have been changed to prevent the guilty. Jake had barely taken a sip of his steaming coffee when he saw that thirty-two of the automated tests failed in last night’s test pass. “Crap, I’m slammed today”, thought Jake, “I don’t have time to look at thirty-blanking-two failures”….

I’ve been thinking about how professional testers describe themselves. We have high level labels like Tester, SDET, or Quality Engineer, but beyond those (mostly meaningless) titles, many of us have our own personal missions or visions – the words we want people to associate with us. For example, my twitter bio is, “Long time software…

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…

Another Friday, another week with cool things to share. I’m happily working through Steven Johnson’s newest book, Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most. I’m a massive Steven Johnson fan, and this book is stories and insights about decision making – but not quick decisions like in Blink (Gladwell) or Decisive (Heath…

Today has been an interesting day in American politics. Not sure what happens next, but I hope it gets better. Here are a few things I found this week that I thought were interesting. This post on PM & EM: Rules of Engagement echoes something I’ve noticed over the past several years – there’s a…