Pretend for a moment you are a new development manager or director. You hired a programmer to lead a test automation effort. Gave the programmer time, resources, and attention. The […]
Read MoreNice Versus Kind
Sometimes you overhear things. One of the things I have overheard a lot lately is this idea that nice and kind are different. It is important, then, to know the […]
Read MoreContinuous Testing: Defined
If you check Wikipedia, or google, you’ll likely come to the Consensus-version definition of Continuous Testing. That definition is fine, I guess, as far as it goes. What it does […]
Read MorePushing forward at Excelon
How’s everybody handling the apocalypse? At Excelon, our testing work has slowed down a bit, providing more time to do research and publish. “Doing” Email … Better A few weeks […]
Read MoreOn Remote Work – For TechRepublic
Long-time Excelon fans probably remember that back in 2008-2011 I was working from-home for Socialtext. That was some of the most intense, high-functioning time of my career. We hired the […]
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Regression-Testing Redux
I was recently at SauceCon, the annual conference for Sauce Labs. Sauce provides the grid (and cloud of mobile devices if you want them) to run selenium scripts on. Listening […]
Read MoreYour Late Christmas Present
beautiful testing book cover If you wanted a Christmas present, I’m here for you. My last employer, Socialtext, developed one of the first long-term successful selenium implementations. We called them […]
Read MoreTest Tool Maintenance
When the test tooling finally runs the first time, it won’t find anything. And runs after that, that might find something. Those runs aren’t free either, as the system will […]
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Individuals and Interactions
The Agile Manifesto says to focus on individuals and interactions over process and tools. At Excelon, we go further to say that may be the single largest driver of performance. […]
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A Real Interview Result
We’ve been studying lemon markets lately. HR departments simply can not understand every role in the organization, so they hire recruiters. But let’s be honest about the standard for recruiters. […]
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