Career Paths for Testers Using Personas

For testers, being skeptical is generally a good thing. When someone says, “Our application doesn’t have any reliability errors”, I, for one, am skeptical. I’ll poke and prod and (usually) find something they haven’t thought about. There’s power in skepticism. Last year, I led a team of testers in performing code reviews of production code….

Yesterday, I read a mail sent to an email alias I’m on, where the author was asking why tool X wasn’t enabled on his latest build. The mail looked something like this (genericized to protect the innocent). foo.service doesn’t appear to be working Repro: I installed the build from <build_path> I verified the binaries existed…

Wanted to throw out one more link for the weekend to share a really cool kickstarter project. The Cyrcle Phone – is a circular Android phone developed by dTOOR. It’s not a flagship Samsung or Apple, but it IS an innovative take on smart phones that’s well worth checking out. Even if you think you…

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.

Travel week, so I spent a bit less time on the internet, but still have a few things to share. Thanks again for reading – have a great weekend.

A twitter follower just told me that my five for friday didn’t show up. Yes, I’ve been busy, but mostly just dumb, as I somehow managed to write this, and not post it. Better late than never. This week has …not really been any better than last week. Lots of things happening, and only some…