Five for Friday – December 10, 2021

Last week, I scheduled this post, and somehow in doing that I (debatable) made it a private post for subscribers only. That, of course, means that I’m going to schedule this post for 10 minutes from now to see what happens under careful observation. That’s all for this week – apologies again for the posting…

I give presentations to teams at Microsoft often. Some teams want a talk on a specific topic, and other teams just ask me what I want to talk about. It’s a good opportunity for me to try out different ideas and see if they have merit. I imagine only 10-20% of these talks would have…

I shared an article on rotten automation on the testproject blog here – https://blog.testproject.io/2017/11/07/somethings-rotten-test-automation/ A was also part of of Engel Jones 12-minute podcast series. My interview (very little about testing) is here – https://twelveminuteconvos.com/alan-page/  

I’ve run into more and more people lately who are astounded that software ships with known bugs. I’m frightened that many of these people are software testers and should know better. First, read this “old” (but good) article from Eric Sink. I doubt I have much to add, but I’ll try. Many bugs aren’t worth…

My day job is busier than normal these days, so this week flew by. A few interesting articles dropped into my view – maybe you’ll find them interesting as well. Self plug time – Unity Gaming Services are now available – a lot of folks on my team were an integral part of making this…

I come across this frequently enough that I’m sure I’ve blogged about it before, but context dictates that I do it again. The story I hear goes pretty much like this: My team really needs to improve X, but nobody is taking responsibility for it. The fix is obvious – we need our exec /…