Testing Smarter
The folks at Hexawise just published an interview with me as part of their new “Testing Smarter” series. It’s the typical stuff plus one mini-rant.
The interview is here, and there’s a(n empty) reddit thread as well.
The folks at Hexawise just published an interview with me as part of their new “Testing Smarter” series. It’s the typical stuff plus one mini-rant.
The interview is here, and there’s a(n empty) reddit thread as well.
Here are five things that caught my attention this week. I created a mind-map for an article I have coming out next week. It reminded me how valuable mind-maps are for communicating information. I’ve had a lot of luck using them as test strategy docs, as the visual nature gets much more engagement and feedback than a…
I may have mentioned this on the old blog, but I’m pretty sure I haven’t mentioned it here yet. O’Reilly media recently released Beautiful Testing – a collection of essays from a variety of testing professionals (including yours truly). I received my copy over the weekend (much to the annoyance, I’m sure, of several other…
After releasing The A Word, I didn’t plan on writing any more posts about automation. But, after pondering transitions in test, and after reading this post from Noah Sussman, I have a thought in my head that I need to share. I don’t think testers should write automation. I suppose I better explain myself. All…
Back for another week of random links and interesting articles from the internet. For the ‘murican readers here, the US Vaccine Tracker is a nice look at vaccine rates across a variety of demographics. A great article on metrics that don’t suck from Greg Paciga Just this week, I was in a conversation about automating…
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Hi Alan, thanks for the interview.
“I subscribe to at least fifty software development and test related blogs” – can you share this list?
I will…but the awful thing about my RSS feed is that I have no categories. Just one big list of software development, agile, testing, cooking, wine, comic strips, writing, etc. blog posts. I’m afraid if I shared, you’d just see noise, and little value.
“cooking, wine, comic strips”- that’s what I’m looking for 🙂
It’s not problem 🙂