Five for Friday – January 12, 2024

I’ve run into more and more people lately who are astounded that software ships with known bugs. I’m frightened that many of these people are software testers and should know better. First, read this “old” (but good) article from Eric Sink. I doubt I have much to add, but I’ll try. Many bugs aren’t worth…

There’s been s lot reported lately on the Equifax security breach. Equifax failed to apply a security patch for Apache Struts in a timely manner, and attackers took advantage of this to get at a whole lot of customer data. What we don’t know at this time is whether this was a fluke due to a…

I had one of those meditative weekends, where between solving Advent of Code challenges, seeing the new Star Wars movie, and cleaning my home office, some ideas (sort of) merged in my head. One part of the recipe was yet-another-discussion on twitter over the weekend (over) reacting to the Test is Dead theme that came…

Here we go again… I saw that Google is asking employees to take a day off to avoid burnout – and thought, hey – good idea. A second later, I realized that the day they’re asking employees to take off is already a paid holiday at Unity. In Coronavirus news, this morning, I read an…

I was thinking about this on the way to work today, and thought I’d try to spit out a quick blog post before I got side-tracked again. I’ve been very fortunate to have had success with organizational change with teams at Microsoft. Whether it’s getting programmers to run integration tests before check-in, or helping a…

Not sure if it’s possible to find anything more interesting than Pence’s fly this week, but I tried. Mike Cohn wrote (yet another) article I enjoyed – this week’s topic asks, Are We Really Bat at Estimating? This twitter thread had some unsurprising thoughts (with some research) on the future of remote work. It’s now…