Software Quality Engineering recently sent me a bunch of inteview questions for a StickToolLook e-newsletter. Writing a reply was hard, as I wanted to provide real information that was worth […]
Context Driven
I posted this to the Software-Testing Yahoo Group yesterday, and I thought Creative Chaos Readers might enjoy this. The background is a post saying that context-driven thinking was universal, and […]
Against Systems
As a military cadet, I had a few occasions to design systems – generally point systems. For example, the number of points required to graduate from a summer encampment, or […]
The Software Concept Maturity Model (SCMM)
Here’s a gift for the holidays; a software concept maturity model to lighten your mood. Level 1 – InitialAt this point, someone has an idea. It seems to work for […]
References, Holidays, and Enterprise Architecture!
First of all, Agile Shark Jumpin’ got a reference last week on InfoQ.com. Nifty! Second, I am taking a short sabbat from Creative Chaos over the next few days. There […]
Four Schools of Software Testing
Most readers of “Creative Chaos” probably know that allthough I do all things software, my predominant focus is software testing. In fact, a few weeks back Elisabeth Hendrickson labelled my […]
Two Roads in a wood – III (Tone)
Brian Marick once wrong something to the effect of “Methodology design is an extension of personality.” There is a large percentage of the population to who having things be stable, […]
Two Roads in a wood – II
“Deal or no deal?”“Is that your identity?”“Let’s play one verses one hundred!”“Is that your final answer?” These catch-phrases all come from simple, formulaic game shows. The shows are the same, […]
Considering Conferences
I used to go to conferences to get new ideas, and my emphasis was on the “big” ones like The SD Conferences or the Open Source Conference. Thanks to the […]
Agile Shark Jumpin’ – IV
I turns out that my Collegue, Jim Brosseau has been going through some of the same issues that I have. Jim and I don’t totally agree on every issue (who […]
Test or Hardware Architecture ? – I
In the 1960’s, we had the “Software Engineering Crisis”, which was essentially the problem that NATO could not develop software supply to meet demand. The solution, more-or-less, seemed to be […]
Two Roads in a wood …
(I’m still on haitus from the Agile Jumped the shark. More soon. While I work on it …) From a recent post I made to the agile-testing list … I […]
I’ve not been welll …
… And will probably continue to be sick. There’s more to come on Agile Jumping the Shark, but it’ll probably later in the weak. Still, in the interim, I wanted […]
(Sidebar: Going Meta …)
Bob Martin actually wrote this three years ago: As I said before, going meta is a good thing. However, going meta requires experimental evidence. Unfortunately the industry has latched on […]
Shark Jumpin’ – III
I made a posst to the Agile-Testing list a few months back about AgileCMMI; I thought it was worth repeating here: >In the long run should we have ‘agile CMM’? […]
Shark Jumpin’ – II
Ben Edwards commented yesterday that in TV Shows, the characters age and the writers need to introduce new characters or plotlines to keep things interesting. Those things may make the […]
Agile Jumped the Shark? – I
On Happy Days, there was an episode where Fonzie jumped a shark tank on his motorcycle. Many people consider that the “high water” mark of the show, and believed that […]
If you hate it, do more of it
I was talking to Tessa yesterday about the PMP certification, which I am not exactly a big fan of. She reminded me of the old adage ‘if you hate it, […]
Interesting Links
Scott Ambler has an article in this months Dr. Dobbs Magazine on Agile Testing: http://www.ddj.com/dept/debug/196603549 Yesterday, Sean McMillan sent me this link to Big Agile Up Front:
Coding Standards ?
This month’s Software Quality Professional claims on page 51 that: By having defined coding standards, developers trained in the use of the those standards are less likely to make certain […]