Five for Friday – March 12, 2021

At a recent internal forum, I hosted a panel discussion comprised of “senior” level testers at Microsoft. The panel was evenly split between managers and non-managers and we took random questions from the audience on career paths in test. The testers in the panel had experience ranging from 11 to 24 years in test. Some…

I’m heading up to the Vancouver for the Olympics this weekend and hoping to catch up on some reading on the trip. I’ve built up a bit of a backlog of books I want to read or re-read and I’m going to try to make a big dent in the list during the train ride…

I think this is the first time I’ve blogged about automation since writing…or, to be fair, compiling The A Word. But yet again, I see questions among testers about the value of automation and whether it will replace testers, etc.. For example, this post from Josh Grant asks whether there are similarities between automated trucking…

Last week I came across this article about Samsung fixing an SMS bug in their software. For the most part, it’s the typical “we found a bug and we’re fixing it” story that are just a bit too common in the news these days – but I was struck by this line: Another annoying bug…

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Another episode of “stuff I found interesting over the past week or so” I don’t know how you could have missed this, but Google confirms ‘quantum supremacy’ breakthrough Anecdotally, I knew this to be true, but according to this article, Over 60% Of Employees Are Happy At Startups—Far Outpacing FAANG And MSFT I wanted to…