It’s been a odd couple of years. Take this post on linkedin from last week: The meta-point the author is trying to make is that testing is always testing, and […]
Read MoreA Quick bit on why/what Scrum improved
One of my students recently asked me: Is Scrum actually useful? Many developers I’ve heard from have had negative experiences with it, and I’m curious about whether it’s more effective […]
Read MoreAgile Alliance/PMI Partnership?
Too long/did not read version: The people-people took over the label Agile, as they do. The Sound Craftspeople, as always, have work to do. It’s time for us to get […]
Read MoreOn Truth
After a wonderful talk with Michael Larsen at #PNSQC, I do feel compelled to make a statement. That is to say, something like this: I got into testing at least […]
Read MoreJokes, Parables and Videos
A few years ago I realized that I have an informal list of jokes, parables, and videos that I use in everyday conversation on projects to make a point. Sometimes […]
Read MoreWorld wide Windows Outrage — I mean Outage
If you’re one of those executives that got rid of the test role and then didn’t have any serious study or support of it by workers … … I hope […]
Read MoreMeasuring test improvement
Ideas for testing improvement are everywhere – write some tooling, test in production, shift testing left, “sprinkle some AI on it”, and so on. But how will we know if […]
Read MoreA quick tour of test strategy!
Michael Larsen and our Managing Director, Matthew Heusser are giving a talk on their newest book, Software Testing Strategies on Wed, 13 Mar at 6:00PM Pacific time. The event is […]
Read MoreAll aboard for the mystery tour – step right this way!
With Coronavirus, conference speaking sort of went away. Excelon went from participating in a dozen events a year to … maybe one. It’s time we got up and looked around, […]
Read MoreThird day of Christmas – Fundamental Issues in Test Automation
Let’s continue the conversation about our Testing Strategies book, talking about chapter the Fundamental Issues in test automation chapter. We’ve made a Youtube playlist for the various “days of Testing […]
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