Five for Friday – May 1, 2020

One thing I’ve learned in my testing career is that where there are bugs, there are more bugs. Some of my colleague Nachi’s research shows that components with a high number of pre-release bugs has a corresponding share of the post-release bugs. The heuristic works well on a smaller scale too – if I find…

I chair an advisory council for a community of senior testers at Microsoft. We have a variety of events ranging from talking heads to open space events to panels to whatever type of event we think is the most different than the previous one. Yesterday, we had our fifth annual “soapbox” event, a lightning talk-ish…

Happy New Year everyone! It was great to have a break, but I bet you can’t wait to see what bits of the internet I’ve uncovered for you. Or you’re here to see if I’m going to get people on linkedin angry at me again. Either way – here are some links to things I’ve…

Some interesting bits from the week I took a pause on reading Why We Sleep (great content, not my favorite writing), but will continue to plow through it between more readable books. I’ve moved on to something I bought a while back, but finally just started – Accelerate, by Forsgren, Humble, and Kim. I’m fifty…

Thanks to everyone who attended the presentation today. Video and slides are below. For those who asked – some of my other online talks are here: Thoughts on test strategy – http://www.vimeo.com/15853235 Code reviews for testers – http://www.vimeo.com/16753993   Ride the Gravy Train (and other career tips) from Alan Page.   Ride the gravy train…

In January of 1995, I began some contract work (testing networking) on the Windows 95 team at Microsoft. Apparently, my work was appreciated, because in late May, I was offered a full time position on the team. My first official day as a full time Microsoft employee was June 5, 1995. That was twenty years…