Five for Friday – January 8, 2021

I spent the last few days in Zurich – it was a brief, but nice stay. I left Seattle on Sunday, and arrived in Zurich on Monday – I spent the afternoon touring the city in an attempt to walk off jet lag. On Tuesday, I gave a presentation to a group of customers and…

A few episodes ago on AB Testing, we talked about the Theory of Constraints and related topics. A lot of us frequently see “QA” or “Test” as a bottleneck, even on Agile teams – where several changes may be waiting for signoff from the designated quality or testing specialist before being deployed or marked as…

Well – today has been a shitty day. Thanks to a set of unqualified judges forming opinions based on their fantasies instead of policy, abortion is illegal in 26 states. This will undoubtedly result in health issues and death for many women, and cause economic burden in states who already have high levels of poverty….

I’m in Frankfurt for a few days, and tomorrow (Wednesday), I am giving a keynote at German Testing Day on Test Innovation at Microsoft. At this point, I’ll give you a few moments to chuckle, laugh, or make snide remarks about the topic. I think I’ve heard it all before; “testers at MS just write…

I mentioned this on twitter a few times, but should probably mention it here for completeness. I’m taking a break. I’m taking a break from blogging, twitter, and most of all, my day job. Beyond July 4, 2014, I’ll be absent from the Microsoft campus for a few months– and most likely from social media…

I’ve been gathering some information on test automation systems recently and will probably have a flurry of posts upcoming on automation and related subjects. Some observations as I browse what Bing has to tell me about the subject of Test Automation: Wikipedia tells me that test automation “commonly involves automating a manual process already in…