{"id":381,"date":"2011-12-01T15:59:35","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T23:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?page_id=381"},"modified":"2026-02-01T20:13:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T04:13:40","slug":"my-published-works","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/my-published-works\/","title":{"rendered":"My Published Works"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Articles, papers, writing, etc.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a one-stop-shop to view some of my published work. Over time, I reserve the right to throw in a few presentations or non-published papers, just so most of this stuff ends up in one place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/Articles\/MetricsThatMatter.pdf\">Metrics that Matter<\/a>, <em>Better Software, <\/em>October, 2005<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/Articles\/TiredOfBugs.pdf\">I&#8217;m Tired of Finding Bugs<\/a>, <em>Better Software,<\/em> September, 2006<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/Articles\/Abolition%20of%20Ignorance.pdf\">The Abolition of Ignorance<\/a>, <em>Better Software<\/em>, December, 2008<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/about-alan\/hwtsam-cover\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-546\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"196\" height=\"239\" src=\"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/hwtsam-cover.jpg\" alt=\"hwtsam-cover\" class=\"wp-image-546\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computer.org\/csdl\/trans\/ts\/2008\/06\/tts2008060800-abs.html\">The Impact of Educational Background on the Effectiveness of Requirements Inspections: An Empirical Study<\/a>,<br \/>Jeffrey C. Carver, Nachiappan Nagappan, Alan Page, <em>IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering<\/em>, vol. 34, no. 6, pp. 800-812, Nov\/Dec, 2008<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0735624259\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=angryweasel-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0735624259\">How We Test Software at Microsoft<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=angryweasel-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0735624259\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\"\/>, (with Ken Johnston and Bj Rollison) <em>Microsoft Press<\/em>, 2008<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0596159811\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=angryweasel-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0596159811\">Beautiful Testing: Leading Professionals Reveal How They Improve Software (Theory in Practice)<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=angryweasel-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0596159811\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\"\/>, <em>O&#8217;Reilly Media, <\/em>Tim Riley &amp; Adam Goucher, 2009, <em>Beautiful Large Scale Automation,<\/em> pp. 103-117 (my chapter can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/Articles\/Beautiful_Testing_chapter8.pdf\"> here<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/Articles\/PNSQC-alanpa-77.pdf\">The Effect of Highly Experienced Testers on Product Quality<\/a>, Paper prepared for Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference, October, 2009<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/Articles\/A%20testers%20approach%20to%20code%20reviews.pdf\">Peering Into The White Box: A Testers Approach to Code Reviews<\/a>, Paper prepared for the Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference, October, 2010<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Career Paths for Testers using Personas (Stickyminds, 2011)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The One That Got Away (Stickyminds, 2011)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An Introduction to Customer Focused Test Design, Paper prepared for the Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference, October, 2011<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0321754069\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=angryweasel-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0321754069\">Experiences of Test Automation: Case Studies of Software Test Automation<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=angryweasel-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0321754069\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\"\/>, Dorothy Graham, Mark Fewster, and Elfriede Dustin, <em>Device Simulation Framework<\/em> (pp 143-154).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Articles, papers, writing, etc. This is a one-stop-shop to view some of my published work. Over time, I reserve the right to throw in a few presentations or non-published papers, just so most of this stuff ends up in one place. Metrics that Matter, Better Software, October, 2005 I&#8217;m Tired of Finding Bugs, Better Software,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-381","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2629,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/381\/revisions\/2629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}