Warning: This is one of my, how shall I say it – more “opinionated” posts. It is geared toward a specific audience; I posted it as a reply on the […]
My Agile 2009 Proposals
Bit by bit, the Agile movement grew until it was massive. So now you have people – thousands of them – eager to learn how to develop software the ‘agile’ […]
New Testing Challenge – V
(The next installment in the New Test Challenge Series) My next steps on the testing challenge depend on the reaction I get to the first attempt. Let’s say I get […]
What has Matt been up to?
Well, a lot, but blogging hasn’t been among them. Here’s what’s up: The December issue of Software Test&Performance Magazine is out. You can download the issue here; our column, which […]
SideBar – II
The test challenge is my attempt to explain that skill, practice, and critical thinking – the things no defined process can create – matter in software development – in the […]
New Testing Challenge – IV
So let’s see here. We have a simple test project on it’s face. Management hired us to figure out if the store if following a set of rules. I hope […]
Process over People – I
More testing challenge /today/. This sidebar will not continue to interrupt our regular broadcast. That said … BY THE WAY: If you’ve been reading Creative Chaos for long, you know […]
Barriers to Agile Adoption
I just posted this to the agile-testing list; I thought it was worth sharing. More test challenge to come! //Begin PostI have seen many organizations try to embrace agile, compromise, […]
Sidebar –
Before finishing off the test challenge – The December Issue of Software Test & Performance Magazine is out. The theme is on test automation, and our monthly column is on […]
New Testing Challenge – III
I addressed some clarifying questions yesterday, but I thought of another one: What kind of answer are you looking for? Most of the answers we’ve had so far have been […]
New Testing Challenge – II
Have you ever played pac-man? In pac-man, there is a simple, ostensible game: Eat the dots before any of the ghosts get you. However, there is a hidden game – […]
A New Testing Challenge
I’ve been spending a good deal of time lately thinking about the cognitive process of testing: What makes a good test case? How do we “know” that the software is […]
Life is production issues
I do want to explore quality, and uncertainty, and ROI. For that matter, here’s a story I’d like to explore: On November 7th, we ate at Pizza Hut, and I […]
What do you want to read next?
Folks, I’ve got a ton of ideas to take Creative Chaos. I’ve been spending more and more time lately involved in discussions of KanBan – which is an evolving method […]
More insight from Joel Spolsky
Then suddenly I noticed (shock!) that not only was the author a journalist, not a scientist, but he was actually an editor at Time Magazine, which has an editorial method […]
The Decline and Fall of Agile
Jim Shore recently wrote a thoughtful piece “The Decline And Fall of Agile.” There is a good point-counterpoint discussion on InfoQ.com. This isn’t a big shock to me; I wrote […]
JabberWocky — II
There’s more to the poem than a good URL. First, head off and read JabberWocky. The Poem is actually a poem-within-a-story – it is a poem that Alice reads in […]
The next (next-next) thing to being there ..
Brian Marick recently did a keynote at Agile Practices ’08. While we have no video, and, sadly, no audio, he has made the entire text of his keynote available on […]
A decent test URL
Say you’re testing an application, like Blogger, that allows the user to type in a URL, and then should have a link show up in the edit window. You are […]
And now for something completely different …
Years ago (decades ago?) I was a cadet, cadet officer, and later adult officer in the Civil Air Patrol, the US Air Force Auxillary. While my responsibilities have pushed out […]