Wanted to throw out one more link for the weekend to share a really cool kickstarter project.
The Cyrcle Phone – is a circular Android phone developed by dTOOR. It’s not a flagship Samsung or Apple, but it IS an innovative take on smart phones that’s well worth checking out. Even if you think you want to stick with your canonical rectangular phone, this is one of those super-interesting kickstarters worth checking out and supporting.
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…
Note: no direct information on software testing or software engineering is in this post. This is purely a trip report (that happens to be related to a trip I took to talk about testing). As I begin writing this, I’m in the middle of a trip to New Zealand and Australia. The main purpose of…
I’m back working again – or I guess I should say je suis de retour. I took a few weeks off in southwestern France, one thing led to another, and I decided to stay a bit longer than I originally planned. I’m working remotely for a week or two before returning stateside. It’s nice to…
Here are a few things worth sharing this week Old article, but new to me. It accurately describes almost every “agile doesn’t work” article I’ve ever read. We tried baseball, but it didn’t work. I learned this week about The Learning Cone, and then bit my tongue from nodding too hard. I’m always proud to…
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…