Five for Friday – September 17, 2021

Well…it’s been another week. Hope everyone is holding up. As usual, here are some things I found this week. What do you do when a US state imposes an absolute asinine law and related process? You fuck that shit up and spin up some automation that floods their whistleblower site until it breaks. Oh wait…

I was checking out test conference programs, and found a list of talk titles I found intriguing (this is a sampling of titles from the conference). I’m curious to know how interesting and innovative you think this conference would be. The Art and Science of Load Testing Internet Applications Model-Based Testing for Data Centric Products…

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 chair an advisory council for a community of senior testers at Microsoft. We have a variety of events ranging from talking heads to open space events to panels to whatever type of event we think is the most different than the previous one. Yesterday, we had our fifth annual “soapbox” event, a lightning talk-ish…

I spent the last few days in Zurich – it was a brief, but nice stay. I left Seattle on Sunday, and arrived in Zurich on Monday – I spent the afternoon touring the city in an attempt to walk off jet lag. On Tuesday, I gave a presentation to a group of customers and…

We made it through another week. Sort of. Between this, that, and some really gnarly other stuff, here are a few links I found that you may find interesting as well. In teams I lead, I do as much as I can to ensure a culture of transparency, accountability, and psychological safety. As such, I’m…