Five for Friday – October 9, 2020

I’m taking a vacation. usually people say a “much needed vacation”, or a “long overdue vacation”, but in my case it’s just a vacation. My new job is keeping me interested, engaged and I’m having fun – truthfully, I can’t wait to get back, but it will be nice to spend some time with the…

In a recent talk on test design (link), I discussed the concept of "useful tests". In my definition, useful tests are tests that provide new information. Almost every test is useful…once – typically the first time it’s run where it shows that the underlying functionality is working. From that point on, many tests function primarily…

It’s the FfF travel edition In the past ten days, I’ve been in Copenhagen, Bastad (Sweden), back to Copenhagen, Montreal, and I’m currently waiting to board a flight from Minneapolis back to Seattle. I’m re-reading High Output Management by Andy Grove. So far, it’s as good as I remember. I sort of read a lot…

Thanks to everyone who attended the presentation today. Video and slides are below. For those who asked – some of my other online talks are here: Thoughts on test strategy – http://www.vimeo.com/15853235 Code reviews for testers – http://www.vimeo.com/16753993   Ride the Gravy Train (and other career tips) from Alan Page.   Ride the gravy train…

it’s been a good week – as far as weeks go over the past 15 months. Here are your Friday links: I got my first vaccine shot this week (Moderna). Here’s how to get yours. I’m speaking at Testing Festival next week. Lots of great talks there as well. I’m reading The Culture Map. I’m…

I took the week off from work this week, and the week flew by far more quickly than I expected. Here’s some stuff worth sharing. I got up early on Monday morning and hiked up Mt. Si, and made it to this breakfast spot by 8:00 am. I took Friday’s off for a month straight…