Me, elsewhere

When the days all blur together, is it really Friday. Maybe I should do three for Thursday instead? For now, I’ll keep it as is 🙂 I just updated to the latest version of Ubuntu (20.04 “Focal Fossa”). Like previous versions, it’s pretty damn good. My manager posted on the Unity blog today about working…

I think I’m finally caught up and recovered from my brief North American tour last week. While it was fun to present at two conferences plus a customer talk in four days, I missed out on a the second day of both conferences, as well as the opportunity to meet nearly as many people as…

There’s a pretty good presentation from the folks at Electric Cloud making the rounds on “why your automation isn’t” (and other variations on that title). The premise is, that testers spend too much time babysitting (supposedly) automated tests, and that testers end up doing a lot of manual work in order to keep their automation…

I’ve been thinking a lot less about testing activities lately, and much, much more on how we to make higher quality software in general. The theme is evident from my last several blog posts, but I’m still figuring out exactly what that means for me. What it boils down to, is a few principles that…

I don’t do resolutions, but I woke up this morning in a brand new year (I’m pretty sure everyone else did too). I haven’t been at work since the middle of December, and I’ve been able to pretty much ignore my day job since then. I’ve even managed to ignore most of the software testing…

When serendipity strikes, I know it’s something I should try to write about. At least three times in the last week I’ve had discussions about vision, tactics, and the necessary balance needed between the two. Without vision, your daily work is just work – a grind that takes you in no particular direction at all….