Five for Friday – July 26, 2019

On Thursday, November 11, at 4:00pm PST, I’ll be delivering another free web cast thing using Microsoft Lync (pre-setup instructions here). Signin information here: https://join.microsoft.com/meet/alanpa/37MWC1GQ Join by Phone: +18883203585     +14257063500       Find a local number  Conference ID: 86935295 The talk will be a re-hash of my PNSQC talk (shortened a bit and…

Michael Bolton noticed my last blog post and wrote a nice follow up outlining several factors that lead to testers getting lost in the weeds vs. finding great bugs. I had my own ideas when I wrote the post, but the breadth of suggestions from Michael, as well as from commenters on the original post…

First things first, I’m going to take the rest of the year off after today. Next week is a holiday, and then December is madness. I’ll do a few more posts in my other blog, and then hit the ground running in 2025. And that’s all for this week, and that’s all for 2025 while…

Back for another week of random links and interesting articles from the internet. For the ‘murican readers here, the US Vaccine Tracker is a nice look at vaccine rates across a variety of demographics. A great article on metrics that don’t suck from Greg Paciga Just this week, I was in a conversation about automating…

This post isn’t really testing related, so skip it if that’s what you’re looking for. Late Saturday night, I returned from my first trip to Israel. I was invited to present at the Intel Software Professional’s conference in Tel Aviv a few months back, and I gave an updated version of my STAR East 2010…

Back for another week – remember, if you would like an email version of FfF, you can sign up here (nvm – it’s broken again) Charity Majors shared a fantastic deck on continuous delivery – worth checking out. Two from fellow today, becuase I don’t think I ever called out the Super Managers podcast. Every…