My interlude is over, and I\u2019m back to blogging \u2013 at least that\u2019s the plan, and I don\u2019t see any reason why I won\u2019t be back on the blog-waves on a semi-regular basis.<\/p>\n
My summer was crazy with work. I probably let myself get spread too thin, and I paid the price of context switches and deadlines and delivered what I planned to deliver. One nice thing that happened amidst all of this work is that I had a chance to practice and polish my personal kanban process. I\u2019m a big fan of pkb<\/a> and should probably share my approach to the tool sometime.<\/p>\n But I took a break for more reasons than being busy. Every few months, it seems, I seem to have a personal crisis about the future of software testing<\/a>. I sort of find it ridiculous that there are so many self-proclaimed experts in a field that is at best barely defined. Everyone seems to have a definition of what testing is, and what testers do. I think that\u2019s perfectly fine\u2026until testers begin to discount (or mock) the testing work of others just because what their definitions of roles and approach don\u2019t match. I bet what I do<\/a> is different than most of you \u2013 but we\u2019re probably all still testers (of some form)and I expect we can find some value in the diversity of our approaches.<\/p>\n Then, after reading one too many articles from testing \u201cexperts\u201d that failed to grasp many of the basic concepts of what they were writing about, I began to fear that we\u2019re taking a step backwards for every step we advance. Rather than wrestle with so many things outside of my control, I decided it was time for me to focus on what I could<\/em> control and give myself a break from the testing community. I love you all, but sometimes you drive me crazy.<\/p>\n I didn\u2019t plan to solve any of my internal strive during my time away, and I didn\u2019t. But \u2013 I think I\u2019m better equipped to focus on what I can control and continue to share what I find valuable in my world. I still believe in a bright future for software testing, but we need more open, seeking minds to get us there. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My interlude is over, and I\u2019m back to blogging \u2013 at least that\u2019s the plan, and I don\u2019t see any reason why I won\u2019t be back on the blog-waves on a semi-regular basis. My summer was crazy with work. I probably let myself get spread too thin, and I paid the price of context switches…<\/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":false,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allposts"],"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\/311","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=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}