A while back, inspired by Roy Rappaport’s manager readme, I created my own. Unfortunately too late for most of my Unity hires, but a fun reflection exercise anyway. I originally had this on our internal wiki, but I recently moved it to my github site as a more permanent location.
A few of you already saw this go public last week in the hackernoon article, but for total transparency, you’re welcome to view my “manager readme” on my github site here.
I’m a Senior Tester, don’t you know Been testing software for five years or so I got bills to pay and need a better job… Looking for jobs with ‘Senior’ in the name Gotta’s admit, they’re all pretty lame Looks like I’m over-qualified… Someone (non-Microsoft) asked me recently what a “Senior Tester” does. I told…
I think this is the first time I’ve blogged about automation since writing…or, to be fair, compiling The A Word. But yet again, I see questions among testers about the value of automation and whether it will replace testers, etc.. For example, this post from Josh Grant asks whether there are similarities between automated trucking…
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…
I’m still here. In the same chair as last week. And the week before. And…forever. But here’s some stuff worth sharing to keep me distracted. Recent ABT343 guest and a Unity colleague, Melissa Eaden was on a webinar this week discussing Practical Applications of Modern Testing Principles I realized today that since I’ve been home,…
I talk a lot (and write a bit) about software teams without separate disciplines for developers and testers (sometimes called “combined engineering” within the walls of MS – a term I find annoying and misleading – details below). For a lot of people, the concept of making software with a single team falls into the…
It’s a non-lovely hot and smoky day in the Seattle area. I hope everyone is staying cool and safe out there no matter where you are. Here’s some stuff I found on the internet this week. I thought this article on deadline driven behavior with scrum was pretty interesting. I’ve seen orgs paralyzed by attempting…