Five for Friday – April 12, 2019

Back for another week of random links and interesting articles from the internet. For the ‘murican readers here, the US Vaccine Tracker is a nice look at vaccine rates across a variety of demographics. A great article on metrics that don’t suck from Greg Paciga Just this week, I was in a conversation about automating…

I’m sitting in a hotel room in Munich. I’m slightly jet lagged (I’ll recover by tomorrow), but feeling better than I’ve felt in a week. I’m feeling so good, in fact that I have an abundance of "things" I feel like writing about. If you don’t want to read a non-testing related post (or partially…

Last week, I spent my Wednesday evening talking with the folks at QASIG about test innovation. This is a variation on the talk I gave in November at Eurostar – changed enough so I didn’t get bored, and with some bonus chatter that can only come from a small friendly audience. The recording is here…

This post is completely inspired by Trish Khoo’s post on Preparing for Your Presentation. I was going to add a comment, but it got too long, so it’s becoming a blog post. Go ahead and read that first – it covers way more than I’m covering here, and it’s a well written article. Trish suggests…

I picked up my Xbox One this morning – a special white console with “I made this!” engraved on it. The reviews started appearing last night, and for the post part, they’re quite positive (and I’m not surprised by the drawbacks listed in the reviews I’ve read so far). Now that this project is officially…

If you’re interested in stalking me, here are some places I’ll be in the coming months. On October 18th, I’ll be talking about code reviews at the Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference. If you want to catch me there, you better catch me on the 18th, because I’m flying to Toronto on October 19th to…