Five for Friday – Juneteenth, 2020

Last week I wrote about test design and imagined an app where I thought automation could help with testing. I had some time this morning, so I went ahead and made the application. When you press the “Roll!” button, the app generates 5 random numbers between 0 & 9 (inclusive), and sums the numbers in…

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…

I thought I could raise a bit of controversy by announcing that I’ll be spending a reasonable chunk of my time working on certifications.I teased the twitter-verse with a few hints, wondering if the wolves would pounce on me, but 1) I don’t have that many followers, and 2) since I’m always pissing people off,…

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.

On my bike ride to work today, I was thinking about my current toolbox – the tools I use on a daily basis to get my job done (or to help me get my job done). Or, to be perfectly honest, I’ve been thinking about my toolbox for a while – I just thought about…