Last weekend I went to BarCampGrandRapids2, which turned out to be a wonderful experience. Dave Brondsma and Carlus Henry put together a great little un-conference; jointly organized, show up and […]
Estimates – Laws
I’m a big fan of “Laws” of software development – Rules that express complex ideas in very few words. Moore’s Law, for example, that computing power doubles (roughly) every eighteen […]
Estimates – Interlude
The previous post was on estimates for technologist in general. Software Testers, things are a little more … challenging. For example – What quality will be the code be when […]
Estimates – I
If I had to think of one subject that was not taught in school, and only covered in industry certifications in the most naïve way – it would be estimation. […]
Something old …
I just got back from the wedding of a collegue. In that spirit, I am reminded of the talk I gave last year at the Indiana Quality Conference – something […]
Test Automation – IV
Reads of Creation Chaos has left some amazing comments on the previous post; if you haven’t read them, please take a gander. First off, I agree with Shrini that “regression” […]
Test Automation – III
Charlie Audritsh asked: “I take you to mean what I’d refer to as a regression test. A test of mostly the old functionality that maybe did not change much. So […]
Test Automation – II
I got some great comments yesterday – Charlie and Scott made some solid points, and they are points that I will address. However, before I get there, I would like […]
Test Automation – I
(Taken From a recent post fo the software-testing email list) It always amazes me when strong people come out and say publicly something that I have been mulling on for […]
Why Creative Chaos? – II
The main title of this blog is “creative chaos.” What exactly does that mean? First of all, it is what I came up with after about fifteen seconds of thinking, […]
And now, for something completely different
An April Fool’s joke I’ve been mulling that I turned serious at the end … Lean-Agile Six-Sigma Pragmatic Enterprise TestingBy Matthew Heusser Agile Testing can streamline operational efficiencies – but […]
GreenBar is the New Black
(Or: My Code Odyssey) So, I had a big, nasty codebase. No current documented requirements; a few scattered historical documents. New Requirements of: “Make it to what it did before, […]
At my limit …
About two months ago, I stopped exercising. “Just until I can get over this stressful period.” I also gave up my dietary restrictions. About a month ago, I stopped blogging. […]
Metrics Madness
A Cautionary Tale Years ago I worked for an established fortune 500 company. At the beginning of each year, executives set goals by which they would be evaluated. These objectives […]
The Secret and the Sabbath
The Secret In the last conference post I promised to explain my system to generating ideas to present or write about. It’s really simple. First, you know enough of the […]
Dev to Tester Communications
Last week I posted the comic where the tester says “Hey dev guy, your tests suck! They aren’t actually testing anything!” And the dev guy replies something like “You’re just […]
"The SDLC"
There’s been some great discussion on software-testing yahoo group lately. Here’s the latest post, by Jeff Fry, quoting myself and Ben Simo: Ben Simo wrote:I view the all-too-common resume claims […]
Conferences – V
I promised to detail my strategy to start attending conferences. Actually, it’s pretty simple. 1) Get involved in a local user’s group. Meet colleagues, discuss ideas, help other people solve […]
Tutorials and Training
In a response to my blog post on training, Mark wrote: I would worry more about the thrashing effect of a developer testing course which did not focus on a […]
Lightning Talks Wrap-Up
Just a quick after-action review from STAREast — Overall it was a great experience. Alan Page has his lightning talk up on-line in English Prose; Michael Bolton has his as […]