Five for Friday – April 16, 2021

Back again and sharing a few cool things I found this week. I wrote another article for TestProject – this one on why developers should write all (or at least most) of your automated tests. While I’m self-promoting, I’m giving a webinar next Wednesday on developer vs. tester mindsets. Former guest on the ABT 343…

I have half a dozen different blog posts started but I thought I’d write this one instead. When you listen to customer feedback, you need to treat the good and the bad equally. If some customers say “wow – this is awesome”, and some others say “this is awful – are you on crack?”, either…

I spent the last few days in Zurich – it was a brief, but nice stay. I left Seattle on Sunday, and arrived in Zurich on Monday – I spent the afternoon touring the city in an attempt to walk off jet lag. On Tuesday, I gave a presentation to a group of customers and…

Here’s some stuff I liked this week. I’m going to prepare a talk for TestFlix – you should too. Speaking of presentations, I am using Pitch for my Testflix presentation – I’m not doing a lot with it, but it seems to work well Once upon a time, I wrote the daylight saving time detection…

I’m a huge soccer fan, and I’m happily following the MLS Cup even though the local team was eliminated last week. Last night’s match between Real Salt Lake (RSL) and the Chicago Fire went to penalty kicks before one team finally prevailed. After the game ended, I went to mlsnet.com to watch the highlights and…

When I meet new people, they often ask, “what do you do?” The answer I give initially, and the one I hope to get away with is, “I work at Microsoft.” It rarely works. They inevitably follow up with, “what do you do there?” – which, for better or for worse is a much more…