I’ve been nominated to run for one of the open board of directors positions for the Association for Software Testing. The election will take place August 9th during the Conference […]
New Articles Up – And Plenty of Them!
I was looking at my personal wiki right now, and noticed that the ‘submitted’ category seemed far too large. It was; a number of my submitted articles are now published. […]
CAST 2011 Emerging Topics – Get Involved & Deadline
This year, the Conference for the Association for Software Testing is doing something a little different — creating an Emerging Topics Track that is crowd-sourced. That’s right — anyone attending […]
More publications, new blogging, and … the cloud
As of last week, I’ve started a general IT blog for the folks at ITKnowledgeExchange. I’ll be writing about the cutting edge of IT applications — Web Services, Software As […]
Quality at Ford Motor Company
This month’s ASQ Influential Voices Post is from the ASQ World Conference on Quality and Improvement. Specifically, it’s an interview with Bennie Fowler, Ford Motor Companies Second-ranked executive for quality. […]
On Testing Standards
On the TV Show “Phineas and Ferb“, the menu for Slushy Dog has not changed since the story opened in 1929. When asked about it, Jeremy replies: “I know. It’s […]
Model-Driven Testing Dustup
Last week, Alex Knapp, a general technology blogger for Forbes.com, ran a short article on model-based testing. I took a fair bit of issue with the article, and called him […]
Two Schools of Macro Economics
There’s been a lot of discussion lately about the Schools Concept for Software Testing, generally based on Brett Pettichord’s 2003 presentation at the Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference. Cem Kaner […]
New Article on TechWell – "Software Testing Enters the Cloud"
The folks at TechWell have just published my new article “Software Testing Enters the Cloud: Opportunities and Challenges.” It’s my first article with TechWell — I’m not even sure if […]
The Past Through Tomorrow
(With apologies to Robert A. Heinlein) Strictly speaking, predicting the future isn’t just hard — it is impossible. Yet predicting the future is something testers are called on to every […]
Enough
For the past several years, whenever I work with something and things go … odd … I remember it. Often I will go to a peer I respect and tell […]
And now … more articles!
I’ve been busy writing and interviewing the last several weeks, and the articles are starting to come through the pipeline. Let’s see here … * 25 Agilists to Follow on […]
At Liberty
My six-year-old daughter, Rachel, likes to go for walks in the woods. To be specific, she likes adventures. Given a choice between a nice, clean, well-maintained trail and the brush […]
Get Your "They Live" On
As the old saying goes, there are two ways to make money. When selling salami sandwiches, sure, you could improve your marketing, expand, experiment with better flavors, and try to […]
Quality Metrics (…and other Fine Myths)
When I look at our North American (or at least developed nation) public systems, I am, well … sad. Education, Health Care, Government, pick any area of public life and […]
Configuration Management and Release Management
I keep hearing these term, Configuration Management and Release Management. I am slowly coming to some awkward conclusions about them. Before I come to a final conclusion, though, I would […]
It *was* a big deal
Last February I blogged a bit about privacy issues with Google Buzz. While there was a fair amount of interest, at the time, the general response was “meh.” Well, It’s […]
New Article
SoftwareQualityConnection just published my second article for them, Three Years of Scrum At Socialtext. I hope you enjoy it.
On Writing
I do a fair bit of writing. Every now and again, someone will ask where I get my ideas, or how I find the time, or for pointers on writing […]
More thoughts on the triangle test
About two years ago I posted a link to the famous ‘triangle’ test, and, the next day, some more comments that boiled down to the difference between programmer-testing and a […]