Five for Friday – May 15, 2020

I came across a few comments and statements recently that set off a slightly red (orange?) flag for me. The gist was that debugging was for coders, and that testers “just found the issues”. I get the context (or at least I think I get it) – I agree that all testers don’t have to…

I left out a couple of obvious things in my career post yesterday and thought I’d write them down before I forgot. Managers Yesterday, I wrote about the non-management career path for testers at MS. There is, indeed, a career path for managers – I just tend to talk about the non-management career path because…

I’m back for another FfF earlier than I expected. Hope you find something interesting in these links. I enjoyed this article about the perils of SAfE. I found a few articles this week on learning from incidents – the first is on retrospectives at Inded The second is a few years old (but new to…

I’ve been meaning to write about this particular anti-pattern for a while now, as I think it contributes far too much to the lack of progress in advancing software testing. Up until five minutes ago, I called this the anti-silver bullet theory, in reference to Fred Brooks 1986 paper, No Silver Bullet as much as the…

Between Netflix, Amazon Prime, and a busy schedule, I’ve gone without cable television for the last five or so years…up until a month or so ago when I bit the bullet (for a variety of reasons), and added a television package to our existing internet service. It’s working great so far, but the story about…

I’ve been thinking about testing activities and tester roles lately, or more lately, since it seems to be a recurring topic on this blog. I have to admit that I remain a bit surprised how often testers argue about what is and what isn’t testing. So – let me throw a few examples of potential…