Madness, Math and (half) Marathons – and Medium!

I spoke recently on the topic of “Customer Focused Test Design” (synopsis: customers don’t really care how much functional testing testers do, or how many bugs they find. A test approach that favors scenarios, -ilities, and customer feedback is better; and a bunch of examples for emphasis/proof). Part of the approach I suggest (and have…

I’ve been gathering some information on test automation systems recently and will probably have a flurry of posts upcoming on automation and related subjects. Some observations as I browse what Bing has to tell me about the subject of Test Automation: Wikipedia tells me that test automation “commonly involves automating a manual process already in…

I have an after-work event tonight, and rather than leave my car in the garage overnight, I ran to work. Since I’ve moved to downtown Bellevue, I’ve done this a few times – and given that I’m running another half-marathon in 10 days, it was a great opportunity for a long training run before I…

As I’ve mentioned recently (and probably way too many times by now), I’m in Munich to give two presentations at OOP 2011. My first presentation is tomorrow. Tomorrow evening, in fact, in the “Night School” track. Tomorrow’s schedule has tutorials in the morning, lunch, two keynote sessions, and then, after a short break, 4 concurrent…

I had this weird empty feeling all afternoon, and it just hit me. I (almost) forgot to post my five interesting finds from the week. Steve Blank wonders if a company can succeed using the antithesis of the lean startup. I’ve talked about the big list of naughty strings here before. Now, there’s a node…

In January of 1995, I began some contract work (testing networking) on the Windows 95 team at Microsoft. Apparently, my work was appreciated, because in late May, I was offered a full time position on the team. My first official day as a full time Microsoft employee was June 5, 1995. That was twenty years…