Technical Testing at the Online Testing Conference

In HWTSAM, we (Ken, actually) talked a bit about tester DNA – that bit of mental goo that makes some people better (or at least more prone to being) testers. As I’ve been talking to (potential) testers lately, I’ve had a chance to dwell on this a bit more. What is it that makes a…

I’ve been thinking recently about what ‘code quality’ and what the phrase means. How does someone identify the difference between low quality code and high quality code (or medium quality code)? In my quest for knowledge, I discovered a few interesting things. I discovered the Spinellis book, Code Quality: The Open Source Perspective. I haven’t…

I chuckle a bit every time I see a tweet or a blog post talking about how some attribute is uniquely important for anyone wanting to be successful in a software role – when in reality, there are many professions where these attributes help lead to success. I’m not saying the attributes aren’t important, but…

What a week to start off the year. Hopefully, it’s just leftover 2020 continuing to fester. Here’s some new stuff to talk about. Thankfully, former president Trump was finally permanently suspended from twitter I picked up a set of Galaxy Buds+, and I absolutely love them. I wear them almost constantly. My role at Unity…

Yesterday, I read a mail sent to an email alias I’m on, where the author was asking why tool X wasn’t enabled on his latest build. The mail looked something like this (genericized to protect the innocent). foo.service doesn’t appear to be working Repro: I installed the build from <build_path> I verified the binaries existed…

Another blurry week in the books, but I found a few things I liked. There’s way too much controversy (some of it valid) around the idea of the 10x engineer. But is there a 10x manager. Check out this article on the 10x …no, Supermanager I found an interesting set of articles on Agile Coaching…