Secrets of SDET Success

Michael Bolton noticed my last blog post and wrote a nice follow up outlining several factors that lead to testers getting lost in the weeds vs. finding great bugs. I had my own ideas when I wrote the post, but the breadth of suggestions from Michael, as well as from commenters on the original post…

Happy Friday – here’s stuff you should read. Techcrunch is running a series of articles on Unity. The first one is here – it’s unfortunately pay walled behind a techcrunch membership, but worth a read if you can get to it. Here’s a good question: Is It Time to Do Away with Scrum’s Product Owner…

Whaaa…? Two posts on automation in one week? Normally, I’d refrain, but for those who missed it on twitter, I recorded an interview with Fog Creek last week on the Abuse and Misuse of Test Automation. It’s short and sweet (and that includes my umms and awws).

I had one of those meditative weekends, where between solving Advent of Code challenges, seeing the new Star Wars movie, and cleaning my home office, some ideas (sort of) merged in my head. One part of the recipe was yet-another-discussion on twitter over the weekend (over) reacting to the Test is Dead theme that came…

It’s been a weird week as I see more and more unmasked people milling about, but while still unnerving, it’s nice to see and end approaching. Here are some covid-free articles I found that seem interesting. I’ve been hearing a lot about Product Ops recently and then I found this article which provides (I think)…