Five for Friday – October 1, 2021

PNSQC is still going strong (although it may be over by the time I post this). Sadly, my North American test conference tour forced me to miss the second day of the conference in order to make it to Toronto in time for the QAI Testrek conference. My opinion of PNSQC is the same as…

Should you automate everything, or nothing? Should you test everything, or nothing? How about leadership – should you dictate every detail of what your team should do, or give them no guidance at all. The answer for all of these questions – as you’d expect, is “somewhere in the middle”. In my experience, most people…

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…

Another week, another random five things I found interesting. Feedspot.com lists AB Testing in their top 10 software testing podcasts. Although it has “Testing” in the name, my 2019 goal is to get AB Testing into more Agile or Software Development podcast lists. Joel Montvelisky, who is one of the three AB Testing listeners is…

In my role on Teams, I was “in charge” of quality – which eventually turned into everything from the moment code was checked in until it was deployed to our end-users. At one point during development, we had a fully usable product with no known blocking issues. We were missing key features, performance was slow…

Warning – not software quality related, but perhaps even more important information follows. I am diligent about backups (and paranoid about losing files)…and frugal, so dumping my backup strategy here for those who may be like minded. First thing to be paranoid about is work in progress. If it’s code or text based, put it…