New PodCast – Download it here. And now the explanation … Right now I have article ideas coming out of my ears, and no time to write them down. If […]
Upcoming Workshop
I will be running a small private workshop next month – about public speaking – for new speakers. That’s right; I am giving a talk on how to give a […]
Indy Trip Report
Last month I made it out to Indianapolis for a meeting of the Indianapolis QA Association and a short course on software requirements. Sadly, I tried to make the event […]
Actual E-Mail – II
I’ve been carefully re-reading that email, and it is not as bad as I initially thought. Actually, it makes very few over-the-top promises. Only one sentence really sticks out at […]
Actual E-Mail – I
This is a forward from an actual email I got today. It’s a literal email; it is a cut and paste. If you could, please, write in a few comments. […]
A Testing Fairy Tale
I found a link to this on Pradeep Soundararajan’s Blog; it is a story by Jerry Weinberg about software testing. Here’s the article – Test Trimming: A Fable About Testing […]
Whew!
I just finished my first complete, pre-publication technical book review for Addison-Wesley. Ugh. Twenty-Eight chapters in a little over a week. Well, it was certainly an adventure, and one of […]
Way Over Book-ed …
I know, the past few months haven’t provided the typical Creative Chaos output. So, here’s what I have been doing – 1) Evaluating Submissions for Lightning Talks at STAREast this […]
Magazines?
Despite the emergence of blogging, I still like to pick up and read technology magazines now and again. This can be a bit of a challenge, as there are a […]
To XP or Not?
I just posted this to the Xtreme Programming Yahoo group, and thought it was worth sharing. I start out quoting David Winslow … I want this project to succeed and […]
Anti-intellectualism in Medicine …
From last week’s US News & World Report: I had become aware of misdiagnoses of family and friends. I was teaching three years ago, and I found that many of […]
AST has membership cards!
In an email last week, I jokingly referred to myself as a “Card carrying member of the Association for Software Testing.” I got a membership card in the mail the […]
Testing Challenge – II
By far, my Testing Challenge post has been my most popular; traffic literally doubled even though I slowed down my amount of blogging. Despite the increase in traffic, I got […]
Short Comic Strip
The Amazing Adventures of Action Item Man
Errata
I’m currently working on a reply to the testing challenge; I think you deserve more than my current, sloppy-english response. In the mean time, a couple of very interesting updates: […]
Post to the XP Discussion List
I just posted this to the ExtremeProgramming List; I thought it was worth sharing … >Fortunately I think this is changing rapidly, and there is a growing>body of experience on […]
A Testing Challenge
As a fan of incremental/iterative methods, I like the idea of test automation. In theory, everything should be retested every release, but with two-week iterations, that simply is not going […]
Project Scheduling Formulas
James Bach is running an on-line class for his Rapid Software Testing Course, that I am finding quite enjoyable. More fun than the lectures (which are good) is what I’m […]
Conference Presentation Idea …
Secrets of Enterprise DevelopmentWhat can we learn about Project Scheduling from Mr. Scott? Security from Mr. Worf? Architecture from Data, Engineering from Geordi, Analysis from Spock, and Leadership from Kirk? […]
Teaching ‘Agile’ Testing
Elisabeth Hendrickson recently posted a request for feedback on teaching agile testing. I liked the question so much that I wrote up a long reply; so long, in fact, that […]