Five for Friday – June 7, 2019

I’m not sure if this is a musician’s perspective of learning or something more universal, but it’s something that I think about often. When learning, there’s value in training, lessons, reading, and other learning opportunities, but there’s much more value (IMO) in practice – but I’m not sure if that’s how everyone sees it (or…

I took some time recently to answer some questions about Combined Engineering, Data-Driven Quality, and the Future of Testing for the folks at the A1QA blog. Check it out here.

I’ve been pondering test automation recently. Maybe it’s because of my participation in the upcoming stp summit (note: shameless self-promotion), but that’s only the surface of it. I’ve complained about misguided test automation efforts before, but it’s more than that too. For every tester that cries out that 100% automation is the only way to…

As I approach the half-century mark of existence, I’ve been reflecting on how I’ve ended up where I am…so excuse me while I ramble out loud. Seriously, how did a music major end up as a high level software engineer at a company like Microsoft? I have interviewed hundreds of people for Microsoft, who, on…

We have made it to another Friday. Air quality in the bright green pacific northwest got to pretty unhealthy levels this week, but it’s better (finally) today. I feel like I’ve been licking a dustpan. On the times when i could see my computer screen through the haze, here’s what I found this week. First…

It’s Friday the 13th. I’m not sure what that means, but we’ll see how the rest of the day goes. Here are a few links I found this week that are worth sharing. That’s it for this week (for this blog, at least). As usual, thanks for reading, and have a safe weekend.