A Little Q & A

49 days until the US Presidential election. If you’re reading this in the US, make sure you’re registered – and double check your registration frequently. You can register, and confirm that you’re registered on vote.org I guess code for Windows XP leaked somewhere on the internet. I doubt it’s helpful (or interesting) given that XP…

It’s that time of year again. It’s time for folks to fill out the annual State of Testing Survey. Remember that testing is an activity, and not necessarily a role, so if you’re involved in software, you probably have valuable input. I’m a bit of a Michael Lopp (Rands) fanboy – Managing Humans remains one…

I may have mentioned this on the old blog, but I’m pretty sure I haven’t mentioned it here yet. O’Reilly media recently released Beautiful Testing – a collection of essays from a variety of testing professionals (including yours truly). I received my copy over the weekend (much to the annoyance, I’m sure, of several other…

I probably haven’t mentioned in a while how nice it is to be back on a product team. The complexity and dynamic nature of software development is something I missed more than I knew, and I’m having fun being back in the flow of shipping a product for a million or so users. One thing…

Here are some of the interesting things that passed my way this week. I thought this article from Hotjar on “The 10 lessons we learned launching (& killing) our $200K mobile app” was a really interesting read (thanks Perze). The learning here align quite well with Modern Testing I’d think this article about the making…

(part 1 is here) (part 2 is here) When I joined the Windows Millennium (I usually cover my mouth and mumble when I mention this product) team I was given the opportunity to join either the development or test team. I met with both the dev and test managers and disliked the test manager much…