Eurostar mobile deep dive

It was a busy week, but my list of potential links was long. Here are 5 of the things I came across this week I felt were worth sharing. First off, PNSQC published a small interview with me in promotion of my talk at their conference in October. Alan Page on Tools, Technical Skills, and Modern…

You may have noticed that there was an election in the US this week. Because you (or your friends and relatives) may need it – here’s the wikipedia article explaining our (U.S.) archaic process for electing presidents. Like a lot of people, I don’t have cable, and was a bit worried about watching live news…

This is a brainstorm rather than a well thought out (or thought out at-all) blog post. I briefly considered a tweet stream, but wanted to give my few followers a break. I’ve been thinking a bit recently about what it means to be productive on a software team – or how that productivity is viewed,…

Our family spent a bunch of time this weekend cleaning out the garage and taking care of a variety of long neglected household tasks. One thing I’d been meaning to do for over a year now is to get my Ducati up and running again. Between picking kids up (need a car for that), and…

As I type this, I realize I have a mildly embarrassing gap in my testing career. I don’t recall ever writing any automation for mobile applications. Maybe that’s not exactly true – nearly 20 years ago, I wrote some automation in C++ to test Windows CE, and some applications that ran on it…and technically that…

For testers, being skeptical is generally a good thing. When someone says, “Our application doesn’t have any reliability errors”, I, for one, am skeptical. I’ll poke and prod and (usually) find something they haven’t thought about. There’s power in skepticism. Last year, I led a team of testers in performing code reviews of production code….