More thoughts from me on testing

Hi again everyone – here are a few links I found this week that I like. I’m reading Unleashed, by Francis Frei and Anne Morriss and enjoying it a lot as it has some good advice on leadership This is a great article on best practices on post-mortems and incident review. Speaking of incidents –…

I’m planning to give an internal presentation this week on what I do. I’ve been in my new job for three months, and although I’m still learning, I have enough of a routine that I’d like to share it with a few peers across the company to get feedback and ideas. Most of what I…

It’s the beginning of a 4-day weekend – Now that the weather is more manageable in the Seattle area,I’ll probably go on a hike or two this weekend. The Hike Finder Map from wta.org is a great way to discover new trails. The TestBash Home 2021 talks are up (including mine), on the “future” of…

I think this is the first time I’ve blogged about automation since writing…or, to be fair, compiling The A Word. But yet again, I see questions among testers about the value of automation and whether it will replace testers, etc.. For example, this post from Josh Grant asks whether there are similarities between automated trucking…

It’s the American Thanksgiving version of FfF – here are a few interesting things I want to share this week. A colleague shared this interesting article on The Epistemology of Software Quality and I’m sharing it forward. I’ve never liked shift-* testing terms – but I’m warm to the idea of omni-testing If you or…

I’m reading the Lean Product Playbook – which has this quote (similar to the Poppendiek quote I also frequently mention.As Dave McClure of 500 Startups said, “Customers don’t care about your solution. They care about their problems.” Here’s an article on two of my favorite things – Kanban and Crossing the Chasm – Crossing the…