Five for Friday – January 11, 2019

I have an after-work event tonight, and rather than leave my car in the garage overnight, I ran to work. Since I’ve moved to downtown Bellevue, I’ve done this a few times – and given that I’m running another half-marathon in 10 days, it was a great opportunity for a long training run before I…

After releasing The A Word, I didn’t plan on writing any more posts about automation. But, after pondering transitions in test, and after reading this post from Noah Sussman, I have a thought in my head that I need to share. I don’t think testers should write automation. I suppose I better explain myself. All…

This was…not one of my favorite weeks. Other than a few long walks with the dog, I’m taking a light weekend to see if I can get my head back on straight. Here are a few things I read this week you may find interesting. Thanks again for reading – have a good week.

I’ve been having one of those experiences where a lot of the random bits of flotsam on my radar are sort of converging. But I don’t know if it’s really convergence, or if I’m forcing it. I hope it’s the former, but time will tell. In my last post, I reflected on a wonderful article…

I haven’t blogged much recently, and it’s mainly for three reasons. I’m busy – probably the hardest I’ve worked in all of my time in software. And although there have been a few late nights, the busy isn’t coming from 80-100 hour weeks, it’s coming from 50 hour weeks of working on really hard shit….

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 –…