Five for Friday – February 7, 2020

  • I just finished a re-read (or the first read of the second edition) or Release It! It is crammed full of things that everyone working on a website or software service should know – including this painful nugget:
    GitHub currently shows 288,093 commits with the title “Removed password.” Tomorrow that number will be higher.
  • Sometimes I don’t remember how I found an article, but I do know that it resonates. This article on Systems Thinking for Product Design aligns a lot with my approaches
  • Yet-another – but probably the best list of how-to-git is here
  • I’ve become one of those people who ocassionally uses icons as small graphics in their presentations. I’m sure I’ll bore of it soon – in the meantime, The Noun Project is the best source I’ve found for CC-licensed icons.
  • In years of helping teams improve, one consistency I’ve noticed is that teams usually don’t recognize all of their technical debt. This article on a Wall of Tech Debt is one way to help with that deficiency

Similar Posts

  • |

    Five for Friday – October 20

    As promised, back again with five things I think are worth sharing this week. First off, everyone needs to read this post from Cassandra Leung. It’s a well written and haunting view into sexual harassment. It’s something we all should read, reflect, and keep in mind as we grow any community we are part of. This…

  • Test Design for Automation

    I’ve been pondering test automation recently. Maybe it’s because of my participation in the upcoming stp summit (note: shameless self-promotion), but that’s only the surface of it. I’ve complained about misguided test automation efforts before, but it’s more than that too. For every tester that cries out that 100% automation is the only way to…

  • |

    Five for Friday – November 3

    Here are five things that caught my attention this week. I created a mind-map for an article I have coming out next week. It reminded me how valuable mind-maps are for communicating information. I’ve had a lot of luck using them as test strategy docs, as the visual nature gets much more engagement and feedback than a…

  • Career Tips – Media Links

    Thanks to everyone who attended the presentation today. Video and slides are below. For those who asked – some of my other online talks are here: Thoughts on test strategy – http://www.vimeo.com/15853235 Code reviews for testers – http://www.vimeo.com/16753993   Ride the Gravy Train (and other career tips) from Alan Page.   Ride the gravy train…

  • 2012 Recap

    As 2012 comes to a close, I thought I’d recap the year. I think this little exercise is mostly for me, but I suppose new blog readers (or people with too much free time) may find some points of interest. Some more from the non-Microsoft front follows. My most popular blog posts from the last…

  • Teams

    I mentioned this at TestBash a few weeks ago (and on a yet-unreleased ABTesting podcast) – and probably on twitter too, but my third “secret” project in a row at Microsoft (following Xbox One and the science project to make Android apps run on Windows Phone) was finally announced to the world on November 2nd….

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.