{"id":1224,"date":"2018-02-16T12:14:16","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T20:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?p=1224"},"modified":"2018-04-06T13:05:40","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T20:05:40","slug":"five-for-friday-february-16-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/five-for-friday-february-16-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Five for Friday &#8211; February 16, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Quote of the week: \u201c<em>All good work is done in defiance of management<\/em>.\u201d\u2014Bob Woodward<br \/>\nEvery time I read that, I ponder and reflect on the wonderful truth in the statement. Take some time to do so yourself.<\/li>\n<li>No big surprises here, but always good to see when research lines up with my anecdotal experiences.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2018\/02\/big-companies-are-embracing-analytics-but-most-still-dont-have-a-data-driven-culture\">Big Companies Are Embracing Analytics, But Most Still Don\u2019t Have a Data-Driven Culture<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>As far as Test Automation goes, I frequently say, &#8220;<em>You should automate 100% of the tests that should be automated<\/em>&#8220;. For a better, more pragmatic answer, read this <a href=\"http:\/\/katrinatester.blogspot.com\/2018\/02\/how-do-you-decide-what-to-automate.html\">article from Katrina Clokie<\/a> (whom I still owe a proper review of her book).<\/li>\n<li>I gave a talk this week on the (AB)use and Misuse of Test Automation. If you missed it, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Kzm3fu5f6VA\">watch it here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m giving a talk on February 27th (a panel discussion) on the future of test automation as well. <a href=\"http:\/\/go.testim.io\/the-future-of-test-automation-how-to-prepare-for-it?utm_campaign=Future%20of%20Test%20Automation%20webinar%20-%20Feb%202018&amp;utm_content=67182732&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter\">Sign up<\/a> and check it out.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quote of the week: \u201cAll good work is done in defiance of management.\u201d\u2014Bob Woodward Every time I read that, I ponder and reflect on the wonderful truth in the statement. Take some time to do so yourself. No big surprises here, but always good to see when research lines up with my anecdotal experiences.\u00a0Big Companies&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","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":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allposts","category-five-for-friday"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=1224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}