Five for Friday (ish) – February 21, 2020

Last week I wrote about test design and imagined an app where I thought automation could help with testing. I had some time this morning, so I went ahead and made the application. When you press the “Roll!” button, the app generates 5 random numbers between 0 & 9 (inclusive), and sums the numbers in…

Oh hey – I’m back. First there was DefCon – then there was the covid I caught at Defcon, and now I’m back to the world of the living and managed to be awake enough this week to find a few cool things worth sharing. This is usually where I say, see you next week…

My last post (from what I’m told) ruffled some feathers in my old team. I actually find that odd given how well known the types of actions I mentioned are among that team. I live my life as if everything is a learning experience. I mean that – everything. I don’t regret my time on Teams for…

I first heard of “10x” software development through the writings of Steve McConnell. Code Complete remains one of my favorite books about writing good software (The Pragmatic Programmer, Writing Solid Code, and The Clean Coder are also on that list). Steve McConnell’s rarely updated blog (titled 10x Software Development, contains the following tagline: Numerous studies…

A former colleague of mine (a former manager, to be exact), recently blogged about the plight of the SDET as second class citizens earlier this week. I was going to reply to the post right away – then I was going to reply in a blog post, but in the end I decided to wait…

Thanks to everyone who attended today’s brief web seminar. I’ll try anther one in a few weeks (topic suggestions are all welcome). Here is the video – audio tends to fade at some points (I’m investigating root cause), but hopefully it’s somewhat useful. Remember – this is my approach to (what I call) strategy –…