Five for Friday – October 29, 2021

I’ve been a big fan of iterating since before I knew I was doing it. When I first read The Pragmatic Programmer nearly ten years ago, I was delighted to read about the concept of Tracer Bullets applied to programming. The concept of tracer bullets (based on guns firing an occasional phosphorous round in order…

Not only am I back for another week of FfF, but you are too! Thanks for reading. First up this week – in a title that’s obvious, but an article with substance. The Key to Retaining Young Workers? Better Onboarding. This is something I need to ask Brent about. Microsoft considers pay raises to stay…

Every day, it seems, I come across an article, a forum posting, a blog, or a tweet bemoaning the end-of-test-as-we-know-it because some company has hired / is hiring people with programming knowledge to become testers. I’ve written about coding-testers (here, and in other posts) before (as have many others that I’m too lazy to look…

Yet another busy week in the world, but I still found a few cool things to share. I started Measure What Matters a year ago, but have been reading it regularly recently – it’s settling well with me and I’m learning a lot. I’m late to the party, but I’m watching The Queen’s Gambit on…

Leave it to Adam Goucher to beat me to the punch line. When I proposed that breaking down your definition of quality to a manageable set of ilities is a reasonable method for improving customer perceived quality, the logical next step is to try and find out which of the ilities you need to care…

The “Test This” game pops up frequently in testing circles. Sometimes it pops up in the “How would you test a …” variety – e.g. How would you test a stapler. Participants in the game are expected to come up with functional tests (can it staple), as well as “out of the box” tests like,…