Five for Friday – July 22, 2022

It’s smack in the middle of summer in Seattle – which means it rained most of the week. Here’s what I read while watching the clouds. Cindy Sridharan is back with another fantastic blog post – this time on Distributed Tracing There are few things I loathe more than a status meeting. Here’s an article…

A few points of interest from my week. My quote to ponder is from Jerry Weinberg – “Unless and until all members of a team have a common understanding of the problem, attempts to solve the problem are just so much wasted energy.” Take a moment to reflect how often you’ve seen this yourself firsthand….

If you read my blog, you’re probably already sick of me, but I’ll share a few links anyway. I gave a webinar a few weeks ago for the fine folks at EuroSTAR. Embedded recording is below. It’s a twenty minute ramble on ideas in testing. My laptop with the presentation was in front of me…

I was nothing short of blown away over the past few days, when some comments I made on twitter about UI automation caused a lot of folks to raise their eyebrows. Here’s the tweet in question. I’m not against discussions on the invalidity of the test automation pyramid. If you don’t like it, you use…

I think I’m finally caught up and recovered from my brief North American tour last week. While it was fun to present at two conferences plus a customer talk in four days, I missed out on a the second day of both conferences, as well as the opportunity to meet nearly as many people as…

If you ever want to start a great discussion / debate with a group of testers, ask them to define quality and come up with measurements.“Quality” is such an overloaded term that it’s hard to get people to agree. The Weinberg fans (I suppose I’m one of them) will cite their mentor and say “Quality…