More thoughts from me on testing

In 2003, Brian Marick introduced the concept of “Agile Quadrants” to describe the scope of testing[1] (later expanded on by Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory[2]). Several people (including me) have expanded and elaborated on the quadrants to describe the scope and activities of testing. Here’s a version of the testing quadrants. One challenge I’ve seen…

Early edition this week before I jump on a 10 hour flight home. An interesting article on the dark side of expertise Mot of you have heard of Google’s Testing on the Toilet initiative (one pagers on testing and engineering posted on stall doors). Now, here’s an academic paper on the topic For a decade…

Last week I came across this article about Samsung fixing an SMS bug in their software. For the most part, it’s the typical “we found a bug and we’re fixing it” story that are just a bit too common in the news these days – but I was struck by this line: Another annoying bug…

Some interesting bits from the week I took a pause on reading Why We Sleep (great content, not my favorite writing), but will continue to plow through it between more readable books. I’ve moved on to something I bought a while back, but finally just started – Accelerate, by Forsgren, Humble, and Kim. I’m fifty…

Here we go again… I saw that Google is asking employees to take a day off to avoid burnout – and thought, hey – good idea. A second later, I realized that the day they’re asking employees to take off is already a paid holiday at Unity. In Coronavirus news, this morning, I read an…

This is – hopefully – an auto post. I am taking a very long walk in the woods this weekend. Edit: WTF, WordPress? Maybe I accidentally changed a setting that I just spent 5 minutes searching for. Of course, that means I need to send next weeks post via scheduled delivery too… Time to hit…