Five for Friday – June 12, 2020

I feel like today’s a good day to share a few stories about my first few months at Microsoft, and the (very) small part I played in shipping Windows 95. My start at Microsoft is a story on its own, and probably worth recapping here in an abbreviated form. I started at Microsoft in January…

I’ve stated my distaste for GUI automation before, but after my last post, I feel the need to share some clarification. I’ve been meaning to write this post ever since I wrote GUI Shmooey, so here goes. First off, let me state my main points for disliking GUI automation: It’s (typically) fragile – tests tend…

Back for another week of random links. I’ll skip linking to interesting chat bots, because maybe a chat bot wrote this post… But probably not. That’s all for this week – thanks for reading. Oh – and if you missed it on twitter, I want to start blogging again, but want to pre-rebuild a community…

Oh hey – it’s Friday again already. Things are a bit…busy for me, but my random bits of reading still led to a few things I thought were worth sharing. And that’s all. Time to go play in traffic or something else unhealthy. Have fun this weekend.

I’ve been talking about meetings recently at work (I’m still giddy that have far fewer meetings to attend these days). I’ve had discussions about meetings for at least a decade, and they’re all about the same.People grumble about ineffective meetings, while others grumble about too many meetings. Some grumble about who should be in the…

This is my third post on TestProject. The previous posts are Getting Started with Test Project and Experimenting with Mobile Automation. The last thing I wanted to explore a bit with TestProject is directly writing some code for some (potentially) more advanced testing. Currently, the TestProject SDK supports Java, but SDKs for JavaScript, Python, C#, and Groovy are…