Do all those paid membership sites get you down? Do you have a compelling reason that $50 USD per year is too much to pay? I’ve provided a scholarship for […]
Test Challenge – Free –
Would you like some test training absolutely free? Free like water, free like air? Often, the best way to get it is to help someone else develop training material. To […]
Interlude
Taken from UrbanjungleComic.com, which has some funny stuff. In my version of firefox, only 4 panels – the left most two panes, top and bottom, display. Ironically, I think the […]
How do we see ourselves?
And actual post to a forum I saw yesterday: HiI am new to software testing and want help with learning QTP. I am based in (city) and looking for mentor. […]
The testing renaissance
I just posted this in the Software-Testing Yahoo Group; I thought it also applies to Creative Chaos: — In agile-testing@yahoogroups.com, “woynam” wrote:>>> It never ceases to amaze me the tremendous […]
Last Agile 2009 Interview – Mary and Tom Poppendieck
And InformIT just published the last interview in the series, with Tom and Mary Poppendieck on lean thinking. For a list of all my InformIT articles, you can refer to […]
Why I /like/ Behavior Driven Development
Long-time readers of Creative Chaos will know that I’m not a big fan of X-drive-Y processes. Sure, Test-Driven Development was great, but now we’ve got so many abbreviations poured on […]
Still More Agile-2009 Preview
Yet another article – this one an interview with Mike Cohn of MountainGoat software on user stories, Scrum, and succeeding with Agile. Here’s the interview. So far, these interviews have […]
… and another Agile 2009 Interview – Scott Ambler
The interview series about Agile2009 continues. Next, I interview Scott Ambler, asking him about his Agile Maturity Proposal, Agile Methods at IBM, the slow death of technology magazines, and more. […]
Unfair test questions
Have you ever seen the cop shows where the good guy asks the criminal “what were you thinking?” The best answer I have ever seen is typically “Well, I wasn’t […]
Two Laws and a new article
I put this out in a private correspondence yesterday and thought it was worth repeating here: Heusser’s first rule of ethics: When someone ends a proposal with the statement “… […]
Becoming a software testing expert
SoftwareTestingClub.com ($50 USD/year paid registration) has been having a discussion on “Becoming a testing expert” in it’s forum lately. A number of the comments were very insightful and interesting. I […]
Clearing the backlog
The good news is that Informit.com has just started publishing a backlog of articles from me, including “A Chat with Alistair Cockburn.” Gosh that’s an old picture of me.
Swamp-Ed
I’m afraid we’ve got a serious push at work, and my brain isn’t getting the breathing room it needs to generate blog statements. (Not that I would have time to […]
Let’s overflow the stack – II
Last week I suggested the readers call into the stack overflow podcast and ask testing questions. And Joel and Jeff answered them – or, at least, they answered Adam Goucher’s […]
August STPEdia is out!
Hey folks, the August STPEdia is online: Go to www.stpmag.com and click on “Download now!” in the middle-right. This month Chris and I cover load testing, but our column was […]
The Meme’s the thing
At the very end of yesterday’s post I mentioned Yo Dawg. Yes, Yo Dawg is important, in that it’s a meme. So what’s a meme(*)? It’s an idea – a […]
Let’s overflow the stack
I’ve previously mentioned StackOverFlow.com – a website with answers to technology questions. It is a joint venture of Jeff Attwood and Joel Spolsky; two of the most popular bloggers on […]
Beautiful Testing – III
What, you haven’t purchased an advance copy of Beautiful Testing yet? I can’t blame you. How do you know if it’s going to be any good? Well, one way is […]
Of "Jelled" Teams
I’ve been at Socialtext for about a year and a half now, and I just realized that so has everyone else on the engineering team; our two short-timers are Jeremy […]