Five for Friday – September 11, 2020

Yesterday, I read a mail sent to an email alias I’m on, where the author was asking why tool X wasn’t enabled on his latest build. The mail looked something like this (genericized to protect the innocent). foo.service doesn’t appear to be working Repro: I installed the build from <build_path> I verified the binaries existed…

In case you missed it (because I only mentioned it on twitter), I have another article up on Sticky Minds this week. Here’s the abstract: Many testers have been involved in post-ship decisions about bugs that "got away"–bugs that escaped testing and found their way into customer’s hands. Often, these post-mortem discussions end up with…

Still loving my new role at Unity. As I look at the links I saved this week, I’m wondering if an analysis of my FfF posts over the last 18 months will show trends in my actual day-to-day work. I’ll leave that random thought for those smarter than me to investigate. If this isn’t the…

It’s the American Thanksgiving version of FfF – here are a few interesting things I want to share this week. A colleague shared this interesting article on The Epistemology of Software Quality and I’m sharing it forward. I’ve never liked shift-* testing terms – but I’m warm to the idea of omni-testing If you or…

“Hey – can you set up a repro of that bug for me?” As a tester, how many times have you heard this phrase? How many times have you walked through the steps you outlined in the bug report so someone could look at an error for you? Or – how many times have you…

As 2012 comes to a close, I thought I’d recap the year. I think this little exercise is mostly for me, but I suppose new blog readers (or people with too much free time) may find some points of interest. Some more from the non-Microsoft front follows. My most popular blog posts from the last…