Back in 2008 I organized a peer conference on Technical Debt at Calvin College along with Pat Bailey, Steve Poling, and Michael Kelly. Sponsored by the Agile Alliance, the event […]
Read MoreThe (lack of?) Evidence for Klarna’s use of AI
I’d like to present an alternative perspective on AI for software development, using Klarna as an example. Klarna If we had to pick one company touted as the earliest adopter […]
Read MoreA new turing test
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 […]
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