Five for Friday – October 12, 2018

A few days ago, I began a verbal exploration of testers who code and coders who test. That post provides some context for today’s continuation, so if you have a moment, go ahead and check it out. OK – I know you didn’t read it (or you read it already), so I’ll give you the…

I just finished a talk at QAI Testrek on using personas. Again, I do a horrible job evaluating how my own talks go, but people asked a lot of good questions at the end, and I didn’t swear too many times, so I’ll call it a success. The gist of the talk is that creating…

As you know, I occasionally rant about GUI automation; but I don’t think I’ve done a good job explaining some of the reasons why it can be fragile, and when it can actually be a good idea. Let’s take a deeper look at some of the attributes of the GUI automation design challenges. Record &…

Today has been an interesting day in American politics. Not sure what happens next, but I hope it gets better. Here are a few things I found this week that I thought were interesting. This post on PM & EM: Rules of Engagement echoes something I’ve noticed over the past several years – there’s a…

Inspiration for my blog posts often comes from whatever’s evoking emotion in my life (annoyances, victories, gripes, etc.). Three things happened today that ensured that I’d write this post. Here’s the story of a question from a seven year old, a phone call, and an email. The first incident was a common one. My son…

I’ve been talking about meetings recently at work (I’m still giddy that have far fewer meetings to attend these days). I’ve had discussions about meetings for at least a decade, and they’re all about the same.People grumble about ineffective meetings, while others grumble about too many meetings. Some grumble about who should be in the…