Five for Friday – July 9, 2021

Here are five things I found interesting this week. Ministry of Test called out my talk at TestBash in their Top Ten list of TestBash talks 2018 But something even cooler from Ministry of Test is that they’ve crowdsourced their conference abstract reviews. I’ve already reviewed a few dozen, and think it’s a fantastic idea…

When serendipity strikes, I know it’s something I should try to write about. At least three times in the last week I’ve had discussions about vision, tactics, and the necessary balance needed between the two. Without vision, your daily work is just work – a grind that takes you in no particular direction at all….

Another week that was just a bit too busy for me. Here’s some stuff I found – once again – worth giving a read. I’m super-excited to have Weta join Unity An interesting look, although unsurprising, at the former presidents’s view of the January 6 insurrection. This is a fascinating article on how Slack changed…

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…

Someone asked me recently how long I’ve been doing FfF posts. I wasn’t sure, so I had to look it up. The answer is “over five years”. First one of these was in October, 2017 – boy how things have changed since then. But the five random things from my browsing history continues this week……

After releasing The A Word, I didn’t plan on writing any more posts about automation. But, after pondering transitions in test, and after reading this post from Noah Sussman, I have a thought in my head that I need to share. I don’t think testers should write automation. I suppose I better explain myself. All…