Five for Friday – June 7, 2024

Short story is that TestBash may be my new favorite testing conference. Great venue (no, fantastic venue), well-organized, and excellent variety and diversity across the different presentations. I was reflecting while walking the streets of Philadelphia this morning and realized that almost every talk was experiential – filled with stories of problem solving and discovery. For those who…

I gave a short talk to an internal MS community this week. The topic of the day was “influence”, and I thought it was appropriate to talk about the value of building (and maintaining!) an informal network – and the impact of that network on influence. The advice to have an informal network isn’t new…

It’s been a big week… First off, who does not want a Cybertruck? Areti Panou had a nice post this week with Some Ideas for Reducing “Release Decision” Time I did a lot of reminiscing on past purchases when I found Amazon reports of all of my purchases back to 2006 I like pretty much everything…

Last night, I was sitting in bed reading the latest issue of TapeOp (music recording magazine). I used to be moderately involved in recording music, but these days I mostly just follow the trends and try to stay sharp. TapeOp has a lot of interviews with recording engineers and producers, and it’s great to hear…

Chris McMahon, who has always impressed me with his words and his wit called me out in his blog. Specifically: Apropos of my criticism of “Context Driven Approach to Automation in Testing” (I reviewed version 1.04), I ask you to join me in condemning publicly both the tone and the substance of that paper. Almost…

I’m back for another FfF earlier than I expected. Hope you find something interesting in these links. I enjoyed this article about the perils of SAfE. I found a few articles this week on learning from incidents – the first is on retrospectives at Inded The second is a few years old (but new to…