Five for Friday – September 11, 2020

That light I thought I saw at the end of the Covid tunnel just a few months ago seems to have disappeared. Please vax up, stay safe, and chill out a while and see if things settle down. Here’s some stuff to read while we’re waiting this one out. Let’s start off with a relevant…

Status meetings are boring. More importantly, status meetings are unneeded. Meetings are for discussion, and updates on status rarely require that (until, of course, they do). Nothing – nothing is more painful than sitting through a meeting where people go around the table and say, “Today, I’m doing X”.  Hopefully nothing alarming so far. A lot of teams…

Well – that was a fun post. The dust hasn’t quite settled, but a follow up is definitely in order.  First, some context. I was committed to giving a lightning talk as part of STAR East’s “Lightning Strikes the Keynotes” hour. I purposely didn’t pick a topic before I left, and figured I would come…

Some updates and clarification below. And a NEW HINT below too Recently, I was discussing the diagnostic, debugging, and troubleshooting aspects of software testing, and this morning, while playing with Visual Studio 2012, I created a quick little exercise where the solution relies on these skills. This zip file contains an app (theapp.exe), and the…

PNSQC is still going strong (although it may be over by the time I post this). Sadly, my North American test conference tour forced me to miss the second day of the conference in order to make it to Toronto in time for the QAI Testrek conference. My opinion of PNSQC is the same as…

This is my third post on TestProject. The previous posts are Getting Started with Test Project and Experimenting with Mobile Automation. The last thing I wanted to explore a bit with TestProject is directly writing some code for some (potentially) more advanced testing. Currently, the TestProject SDK supports Java, but SDKs for JavaScript, Python, C#, and Groovy are…