Five for Friday – March 6, 2020

It’s early January, but I think I’ve already read at least a half dozen web articles on how testers need to be creative and use their brains, etc.. The articles are exactly on point in some sense, but most give me the feeling that the authors think that software testing is (one of) the only…

Here are a few things worth sharing this week Old article, but new to me. It accurately describes almost every “agile doesn’t work” article I’ve ever read. We tried baseball, but it didn’t work. I learned this week about The Learning Cone, and then bit my tongue from nodding too hard. I’m always proud to…

Another week – another five things I found interesting. Eighteen+ months into the pandemic, and I finally got a new desk. It’s the Kana model from Flexispot, and it is wonderful so far. Because I’m now standing much more when I work, I was able to dig out my Ergodriven standing mat out of the…

In January of 1995, I began some contract work (testing networking) on the Windows 95 team at Microsoft. Apparently, my work was appreciated, because in late May, I was offered a full time position on the team. My first official day as a full time Microsoft employee was June 5, 1995. That was twenty years…

The wikipedia entry on test automation troubles me. It says: Commonly, test automation involves automating a manual process already in place that uses a formalized testing process. I can’t decide whether it bothers me because it’s wrong, or because so many people believe the statement is true. In fact, I know the approach in some…

I had a short bit of travel this week, and got a bit of reading done on the flights. I love my kindle, and use it when in the air, but I also pack a magazine or two to read during takeoff and landing. On the way home, I was catching up on a few…