Five for Friday – October 29, 2021

I posted slides from my Eurostar Mobile Deep Dive presentation on slideshare. I had a great time, and hope you find them useful. Let me know if you have questions.

The background: I posted some thoughts on how I approach test strategy and what the term means to me a week or so ago. The Rat Pack had some questions on the post and I answered them. But the conversation made me realize that it may be beneficial if I take some time to talk…

If you ever want to start a great discussion / debate with a group of testers, ask them to define quality and come up with measurements.“Quality” is such an overloaded term that it’s hard to get people to agree. The Weinberg fans (I suppose I’m one of them) will cite their mentor and say “Quality…

Five years ago this week, How We Test Software at Microsoft hit the shelves. The book has done well – both in sales, and in telling the story of how Microsoft approaches software testing. An unfortunate aspect of writing a book like this is that after five years, most of the book is obsolete. Sure,…

I’d like to elaborate on something from a previous post on SDETs at Microsoft. One thing that is perhaps a bit different about the test role at Microsoft is its tie to the career path. We are, for better or worse, big believers in career growth and expect growth in scope and impact from all…

The day job (and a new podcast) have been getting the bulk of my time lately, but I’m way overdue to talk about data and quadrants. If you need a bit of context or refresher on my stance, this post talks about my take on Brian Marick’s quadrants (used famously by Gregory and Crispin in…