Five for Friday – November 1, 2024

Because more than ever, all I do is what my calendar and Todoist tell me to do, it’s time for me to spit out. a few things I liked this week from the internet. ICYMI, I wrote an article about me kicking the tires with PractiTest A colleague at work shared this article on Hiring…

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…

Today I saw yet another info-byte on the perils of multi-tasking. I too, think that multitasking is rarely (if ever) as productive as multitaskers believe it is (note: my favorite study compares bong hits with multitasking…ymmv) – but we’ve all seen stuff like this over time. What’s missing from many of the studies and stories…

Kind of a weird week. I left sunny and hot Seattle to visit Los Angeles for a few days – where it was cloudy and rainy. And now that I’m back in Seattle, it’s cloudy and rainy here too. At least the new Guardians movie is out so there’s something good to do indoors. Meanwhile…

…the paradox of testing: We want to find defects in the software under test, but we do not really want to find them".”Phillip Armour I often speak of Phillip Amour’s Five Orders of Ignoranceas they relate to software engineering (note; as of this writing, that link doesn’t work, but I don’t have another link to…

I wrote about using virtual machines for testing in hwtsam, and gave a talk at STAR West a few years back on using virtual machines for testing. What I remember most about the talk was the group of VMWare employees sitting about 10 rows back (I think to ensure that I didn’t say anything bad…