I’m surprised that many people are still asking me what an angry weasel has to do with software testing. The answer, of course, is nothing. I’m surprised however, how many people can visit my site at angryweasel.com/blog and never check out plain old angryweasel.com (where I happen to share the story of where the name came from).
I expect that this year, among other things, will mark the return of the Weasel – stay tuned.
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…
Another dreary wet day in the pacific northwest. Here are a few things I found interesting this week. FocusMate is an interesting idea. It connects you with an anonymous person over video, and you each just work on your stuff. The idea is, that if someone is watching you, that you are less likely to…
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…
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…
In HWTSAM, we (Ken, actually) talked a bit about tester DNA – that bit of mental goo that makes some people better (or at least more prone to being) testers. As I’ve been talking to (potential) testers lately, I’ve had a chance to dwell on this a bit more. What is it that makes a…
This is the special time travel edition of FfF (I lost a day – mentally – while traveling). I have read, and re-read this article on Work is Work. It’s a fantastic analysis of organizational design. I plan on reading it yet again after I post this. It’s no secret that I like Radical Candor,…
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I thought I knew what a weasel is. I had linked it to be the breed of walrus. Seeing “tooth of the angry weasel”, I used it for confirmation bias that I was right.
However, I got curious to know about why weasels are angry or what kind of animals they are. Then I spent about an hour plus and was surprised they don’t belong to the walrus family.
I too had this question of why you chose the name but now I know why you chose it. No, not because you disliked the guitarist but because you were dubbed so 🙂
The “Home” link on the top points to /blog rather than the home of the website. So it might have influenced some people to consider the fact that you use the blogger or wordpress to run your portal and the pages visible here are the ones that are available.