Testing Smarter

I’m typing this week’s FfF from the Unity San Francisco office where I’ve been able to meet for the first time, people who have worked in my org for years. Fun stuff! Meanwhile, here’s some stuff I found this week. Loved this post from Zeno Rocha on The Two Typed of Quality Last week, I…

A long time ago (for most of us), we built products over a long period of time, and hoped that customers liked what we built. It was important to give them all of the features they may need, as we wouldn’t be able to get them new features until the next release, which was usually at…

I think this is just about the 250th FfF (give or take). You’d think the internet would run out of things by now, but so far, so …good? Thanks for reading, and have a great weekend.

Every day, it seems, I come across an article, a forum posting, a blog, or a tweet bemoaning the end-of-test-as-we-know-it because some company has hired / is hiring people with programming knowledge to become testers. I’ve written about coding-testers (here, and in other posts) before (as have many others that I’m too lazy to look…

I’ve been meaning to write about this particular anti-pattern for a while now, as I think it contributes far too much to the lack of progress in advancing software testing. Up until five minutes ago, I called this the anti-silver bullet theory, in reference to Fred Brooks 1986 paper, No Silver Bullet as much as the…

The first half of the year comes to a close, and I have five more things to share. And that’s that. Note – I’m taking next week off while I go on a walk in the woods. See you on July 12.