Five for Friday – March 26, 2021

It is trying to be spring in the pacific northwest – but mostly failing. I’m trying to get out more, but it’s still wet and muddy on the trails, but I expect I’ll be complaining about the heat in another month or two. I did spend a little time on the internet this week, and…

Part of our rhythm of business at Microsoft is setting yearly commitments. Technically, we do these in July for the fiscal year, but we were in the middle of shipping, so I didn’t get to my commitments until recently. On one hand, I don’t like commitments, as in many cases they don’t allow for change…

In music, the better you are at the basics, the better you are on the bandstand. Even the pro musicians I know practice almost every day. I think testers (and developers) forget the value of practice too often. In The Passionate Programmer, Chad Fowler suggests doing the exercises on CodeKata. I checked them out, and…

Kind of a lot going on in the world of the Weasel this week, but I found a few things worth sharing. This came out well before FfF was a thing, but apparently my boss recently listened to this interview with me from ~6 years ago. I’m moving to a new manager at Unity, so…

Yesterday, a colleague asked me where I find the time to blog, twitter, etc. This is something I get asked often, but the only answer I have is that I just make time. I put blogging, presentations, sasqag work, and other community stuff right alongside my core work on my todo list. I’m heavily driven…

Here’s a story I hear often. The names have been changed to prevent the guilty. Jake had barely taken a sip of his steaming coffee when he saw that thirty-two of the automated tests failed in last night’s test pass. “Crap, I’m slammed today”, thought Jake, “I don’t have time to look at thirty-blanking-two failures”….