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Automation Delay – and how to prevent it

February 20, 2021 / Matt Heusser / Blog, Creative Chaos / 3 Comments

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 […]

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Nice Versus Kind

February 11, 2021 / Matt Heusser / Creative Chaos / No Comments

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 […]

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Continuous Testing: Defined

July 19, 2020 / Matt Heusser / Blog, Creative Chaos / 3 Comments

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 […]

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Pushing forward at Excelon

July 6, 2020 / Matt Heusser / Creative Chaos / No Comments

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 […]

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On Remote Work – For TechRepublic

April 2, 2020 / Matt Heusser / Blog, Creative Chaos / No Comments

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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matt begs the community to differentiate between story and regression testing

Regression-Testing Redux

March 3, 2020 / Matt Heusser / Creative Chaos / 3 Comments

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 […]

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Your Late Christmas Present

February 4, 2020 / Matt Heusser / Agile, Creative Chaos / No Comments

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 […]

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Test Tool Maintenance

November 20, 2019 / Matt Heusser / Creative Chaos / No Comments

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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The Agile Manifesto

Individuals and Interactions

November 6, 2019 / Matt Heusser / Blog, Creative Chaos / No Comments

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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Real Interview Result

A Real Interview Result

November 4, 2019 / Matt Heusser / Blog, Creative Chaos / No Comments

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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