Secrets of SDET Success

I gave a short talk to an internal MS community this week. The topic of the day was “influence”, and I thought it was appropriate to talk about the value of building (and maintaining!) an informal network – and the impact of that network on influence. The advice to have an informal network isn’t new…

I had a short bit of travel this week, and got a bit of reading done on the flights. I love my kindle, and use it when in the air, but I also pack a magazine or two to read during takeoff and landing. On the way home, I was catching up on a few…

Someone asked me recently how long I’ve been doing FfF posts. I wasn’t sure, so I had to look it up. The answer is “over five years”. First one of these was in October, 2017 – boy how things have changed since then. But the five random things from my browsing history continues this week……

From Sweden this week – I’m attending and speaking at the Oredev conference this week. In fact, I had a few interesting conversations this week about the convergence of DevOps and quality. But…is DevOps a role or a culture? This podcast from CodingBlocks discusses just that. A few months old, but I enjoyed this article…

I was thinking about this on the way to work today, and thought I’d try to spit out a quick blog post before I got side-tracked again. I’ve been very fortunate to have had success with organizational change with teams at Microsoft. Whether it’s getting programmers to run integration tests before check-in, or helping a…

To Automate, or not to Automate, that is the question that confuses testers around the world. One tester may say, "I automate everything, I am a test automation ninja!". Another tester may say, "I do not automate, if I automate I fail to engage my brain properly in the testing effort!". Another may say, “I…