Five for Friday – November 20, 2020

Recently, I was helping another part of the team with a project. Or at least it ended up that way. There’s a particular bit of what they’re doing where I have some expertise, so I volunteered to take care of a chunk of the work where I thought I could help out. One thing I’ve…

I’m leaving early tomorrow morning for the Writing About Testing conference. I wasn’t able to attend WAT last year, but I’m looking forward to the trip, the meeting and talking with a group of great testers (who all enjoy writing about what we do). I don’t think there was ever a point when I thought,…

I may have mentioned this on the old blog, but I’m pretty sure I haven’t mentioned it here yet. O’Reilly media recently released Beautiful Testing – a collection of essays from a variety of testing professionals (including yours truly). I received my copy over the weekend (much to the annoyance, I’m sure, of several other…

Last week, I scheduled this post, and somehow in doing that I (debatable) made it a private post for subscribers only. That, of course, means that I’m going to schedule this post for 10 minutes from now to see what happens under careful observation. That’s all for this week – apologies again for the posting…

Greg Paciga talks about demoing things that aren’t done – or that don’t work. He’s right – but what’s weird is the heat he took for saying that on twitter Mike Cohn (of the automation pyramid fame) asks Three Questions to Determine if Your Organization is Agile Yet another really nice article from Jeff Nyman on hiring…

To Automate, or not to Automate, that is the question that confuses testers around the world. One tester may say, "I automate everything, I am a test automation ninja!". Another tester may say, "I do not automate, if I automate I fail to engage my brain properly in the testing effort!". Another may say, “I…