Five for Friday – June 5, 2020

I have half a dozen different blog posts started but I thought I’d write this one instead. When you listen to customer feedback, you need to treat the good and the bad equally. If some customers say “wow – this is awesome”, and some others say “this is awful – are you on crack?”, either…

I’m in Hyderabad, India this week to meet with some of our team and to give a handful of presentations at an internal conference. The weather is wonderful this week – it’s warm during the day and cool at night. I got to the hotel around 2:00am Tuesday morning, but got a few hours of…

Warning, non-software post follows. 2014 was an interesting year for me. The year began with the trailing two weeks of a four week visit to Australia. Then, I spent July and August in France, then took another week off when I returned to take care of my dad. Finally, I took the last two weeks…

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…

On twitter, @SeanNoxious asked me about my most memorable bug. The answer is way too long for twitter, so I thought I’d document one of my favorites here. When I first joined Microsoft way back in 1995, I was a tester for networking components on Windows 95. One of the areas I owned was testing…

I chair an advisory council for a community of senior testers at Microsoft. We have a variety of events ranging from talking heads to open space events to panels to whatever type of event we think is the most different than the previous one. Yesterday, we had our fifth annual “soapbox” event, a lightning talk-ish…