Secrets of SDET Success

It’s the Friday the 13th version of FfF! New to me is this collection of culture decks – public slide decks describing the culture of several companies. A reminder that ‘Tis the Season for Technical Debt This is a year old, but I just found this series of articles from Steve Rubin on interviewing. Start…

I took some time recently to answer some questions about Combined Engineering, Data-Driven Quality, and the Future of Testing for the folks at the A1QA blog. Check it out here.

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…

A few points of interest from my week. My quote to ponder is from Jerry Weinberg – “Unless and until all members of a team have a common understanding of the problem, attempts to solve the problem are just so much wasted energy.” Take a moment to reflect how often you’ve seen this yourself firsthand….

What do you do when your manager | project manager | dev manager | other leader asks you for some bit of data that you know is useless? Say that they want something like code coverage progress and test pass rates, but you know that those metrics aren’t truly useful. Side Note: waitaminute – some…