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Testing Secret #2 – The key to test velocity

May 18, 2023 / Matt Heusser / Blog, Creative Chaos, Testing, Video / No Comments

We could define test velocity as the speed at which we cover the software in order to final risks to quality. If we spend time looking deeply into the […]

Software Testing Secrets

May 8, 2023 / Matt Heusser / ask the tester, Blog, Creative Chaos / No Comments

It’s been 25 years since our Managing Director, Matt Heusser, gave his first lightning talk at OSCon. These five-minute talks are powerful because the speaker actually has time to make […]

What we’ve been up to at Excelon!

April 24, 2023 / Matt Heusser / Agile, Blog, Creative Chaos, Testing, Writing / 1 Comment

With things slowing down a bit, our Managing Director, Matt Heusser, has been out and about a little more, and we have new material. Given it’s been awhile since we’ve […]

NOTAM and Resilience

January 12, 2023 / Matt Heusser / Blog, Creative Chaos / No Comments

On Tuesday, January 10th, the US Federal Aviation Administrations (FAA) Notice to Air Missions, or NOTAM, system, went down overnight. As a direct result, no planes took off overnight or […]

The place for #ChatGPT

January 2, 2023 / Matt Heusser / Blog, Creative Chaos / 1 Comment

, Two weeks ago I took my first, presumptive look at #ChatGPT for testing. The app has real potential, and seems to have some ability to learn. It’s tempting to […]

1099 Employment & Healthcare

December 27, 2022 / Jamie Prestia / Creative Chaos / No Comments

So you’ve been offered a wonderful opportunity, great pay, 100% remote, learning new things for Excelon Development. Now you can work from the comfort of your own home, drinking […]

ChatGPT for testers

December 23, 2022 / Matt Heusser / Blog, Creative Chaos / 5 Comments

How We Got Here Seventy years ago Alan Turing proposed that real Artificial Intelligence (AI) would be able to interact with the person through a keyboard and screen just like […]

Let’s get the band back together

August 30, 2022 / Matt Heusser / Agile, Blog, Conference, Conferences, Creative Chaos / No Comments

It’s been eight years since we announced Software Delivery 24/7. The idea was to have a safe place to talk about software, a conference list, a resource list — a […]

Introducing Contracting (+)

August 27, 2022 / Matt Heusser / Blog, Creative Chaos / No Comments

The 2020 Global Pandemic hit friends and family hard. For those who made it through, the loss of loved ones, economic damage, and forced isolation are not something to ignore. […]

On working remote and mini-retreats …

August 6, 2022 / Matt Heusser / Blog, Creative Chaos / 1 Comment

A lot of us are working remote now. That is good. It seems that most of us have just traded a cubicle for a home office. That wasn’t the point; […]