A Little Q & A

I’m two months into my 18th year at Microsoft, and I still really enjoy it – most of the time at least. My job is great, I work on amazing technology, and with people smarter than you can imagine. But, for two months or so every year, the dreaded MS review monster comes out from…

I’m sure by now that most people who want to have seen the webinar I gave last week on test design (if not,the recording is here and slides are here). I had a few goals in this presentation. One I stated clearly – this presentation was primarily about the how of Test Design – not…

  I try to read a lot about testing in blogs, articles, books etc. A few days ago, I came across this quote, and it struck me in an odd way. “Commonly, test automation involves automating a manual process already in place that uses a formalized testing process” The source doesn’t matter, as it turns…

I left a few of my Nest devices in the old house, but after some shopping around, decided to re-up my Nest usage with a v3 thermostat, and a Nest lock to augment some of the replacement devices. We’ll see how it goes. Other than soccer, I don’t watch a lot of TV. But I…

The world is weird. Here are some weird – and not weird things I saw this week. That’s it – see you in a week.

Here we go again… I’ve once again fallen into the trap of reading too many books at once. I will carve some time out soon to get caught up. The latest book to join my “in progress” queue is Software Estimation Without Guessing by George Dinwiddle. Our views on estimation line up quite a lot,…