Five for Friday – April 17, 2020

If you ever want to start a great discussion / debate with a group of testers, ask them to define quality and come up with measurements.“Quality” is such an overloaded term that it’s hard to get people to agree. The Weinberg fans (I suppose I’m one of them) will cite their mentor and say “Quality…

Another episode of “stuff I found interesting over the past week or so” I don’t know how you could have missed this, but Google confirms ‘quantum supremacy’ breakthrough Anecdotally, I knew this to be true, but according to this article, Over 60% Of Employees Are Happy At Startups—Far Outpacing FAANG And MSFT I wanted to…

I’m a big fan of exploratory testing. I’ve used the approach long before I knew what it was called and think it’s the core of good testing. it’s so ingrained in the general approaches I’ve used in my career that I often don’t differentiate between exploratory testing and plain-old-testing (I’ve gone as far to say…

Michael Bolton noticed my last blog post and wrote a nice follow up outlining several factors that lead to testers getting lost in the weeds vs. finding great bugs. I had my own ideas when I wrote the post, but the breadth of suggestions from Michael, as well as from commenters on the original post…

Is it just me, or did this week get extra-busy? Just me? Oh well, between life, work, animals, kids, and summer, I still managed to find a few links this week worth sharing. And there we go. We’ll see what happens next week.

I’m preparing for some meetings with some colleagues in Europe next week and I’m a little frazzled. But this is what my frazzled brain liked this week. I’ve been thinking / talking a lot about culture recently. This quote from Radical Candor (which I just read for the third time) seemed relevant.“The most amazing thing…