Five for Friday – September 18, 2020

Back for another week full of random links from everyone’s second favorite mad rodent. It’s no secret that I think no-code solutions for UI automation is the only viable path. Autify is one of my favorite companies in this space – and now they can afford to do even more. My newfound love of Ted…

I’d like to announce my candidacy for…no – not that kind of politics, I thought I’d drop a few comments on office politics. Too often, people see “politics” as the evil underbelly of the corporate world, and that competency in office politics requires that you can backstab your coworkers with no remorse, find a variety…

Friday again – and it’s a beautiful day in Seattle. Here are some things I found today that maybe you want to know about too. …and yes, I do feel bad about those two puzzles where I couldn’t solve the word. Anyway, I thought this analysis on wordle letter usage was really well done –…

(part 1 is here) (part 2 is here) (part 3 is here) (part 4 is here) I’ve been in the Engineering Excellence (EE) team at Microsoft for nearly five years now, and the time has flown by. The job is completely different from a typical test role, yet almost all I talk about is testing….

Well…it’s been another week. Hope everyone is holding up. As usual, here are some things I found this week. What do you do when a US state imposes an absolute asinine law and related process? You fuck that shit up and spin up some automation that floods their whistleblower site until it breaks. Oh wait…

I’m a big fan of exploratory testing. I’ve used the approach long before I knew what it was called and think it’s the core of good testing. it’s so ingrained in the general approaches I’ve used in my career that I often don’t differentiate between exploratory testing and plain-old-testing (I’ve gone as far to say…