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 […]
A thought …
Meta-Warning: This post is not meant as criticism of any individual or group I just joined the testdrivendevelopment yahoo group, and saw an announcement for this public workshop by Ron […]
Errata
Last week Sean and I had lunch with Elisabeth Hendrickson, where we kicked around our ideas on interface-based testing. Working with Elisabeth was great. A lot of “gurus” like to […]
Conferences – IV
First – some errata – In the United States, next Monday is Memorial day, and I am about to take off on an extended holiday. So this may be my […]
Conferences – III
So, I was going to blog about all the neat people I met at STAREast – Ben Simo, Dawn Hayes, Susan Herrick, Shrini Kulkarni, Iris Trout, and Dani Almog topping […]
Tester/Dev Communications
The space between computer programmers and testers is shrinking – but there are still a lot of communications problems. For example, when I first met Harry Robinson, he was working […]
Conferences – II
The thing about international conferences is that they are, well, international. That means that the “offshore menace” that we talk about at the water cooler is sitting in the table […]
New Article on DDJ.com …
This week I published Are Tests Requirements? which is inspired by a discussion on the agile-testing list. As always, I appreciate any feedback.
Conferences – I
I just got back from STAREast and had an absolute blast. Events like that are beneficial in so many ways. You can recharge your batteries, get new ideas, meet new […]
Limericks
Not only did I actually get a reader from Limerick, Ireland, last month, but May 12th was National Limerick day. In honor of that Jeff Fry made a series of […]
Software Testing Skills – II
My last post was the quick, fast, off-the-cuff sort of answer I give to a mailing list on my lunch hour. Paul Carvalho has actually taken time to do a […]
Recent post on the agile testing list
I just posted this on the Agile-Testing list; it is rough, uncouth, and just a start, but it was fun to write and I wanted to share. If I could […]
Lightning Talk Mojo – II
Hopefully, in the past few posts, I convinced you that we do lightning talks every day – the questions are: 1) Do we do them well?2) How can we improve? […]
Creative Chaos Link of the Day
The link of the day is: What Works in Software Development (Or – How To Be Lazy Without Really Trying) (HTBL) HTBL is, essentially, an agile methodology for one person. […]
STAR East Lightning Talk LineUp!
I am pleased to announce the initial line-up for lightning talks at STAR East, 2007: Scott Barber, Performance Testing in Five MinutesJames Bach, What I do when I see a […]
Lightning Talk Mojo – I
Breathing readers of Creative Chaos know that I am facilitating Lightning TalksatSTAREast 2007 – astute ones realize that I am a genuine fan of the concept. I would like to […]
Hosting Fix-ed!
Last week I switched hosting providers to GoDaddy. The only major mix-up I experience was that I lost the link to Chapter 15 of Jim Brosseau’s book proposal, which is […]