Updates and things

I come across this frequently enough that I’m sure I’ve blogged about it before, but context dictates that I do it again. The story I hear goes pretty much like this: My team really needs to improve X, but nobody is taking responsibility for it. The fix is obvious – we need our exec /…

Another week gone, and I’m still frustrated with the world around me. Trying to stay positive, but…sheesh. Here’s some stuff worth reading. I’m cheating, but this is worth it. Here is a post highligting seven must-reads for women in tech. I don’t often highlight AB Testing podcasts here, but we had Anne-Marie Charrett on a…

My last post contained one of the tricks I use when writing – how I use iteration when I’m writing. It’s one technique I use to make steady progress and avoid writers block. Although that post was about iteration in general, it reminded me that I have a few other tricks that I wanted to…

Here are five things I found interesting this week. Ministry of Test called out my talk at TestBash in their Top Ten list of TestBash talks 2018 But something even cooler from Ministry of Test is that they’ve crowdsourced their conference abstract reviews. I’ve already reviewed a few dozen, and think it’s a fantastic idea…

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 have somewhat of a non-traditional test role at Microsoft. I’m a tester (that’s what my business card says), but I don’t own any specific components or features. I test, but mostly where I want to discover something for myself, experiment with an idea, or when I’m coaching others. The bulk of my time, in…