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… And thank you for your support

August 16, 2023 / Matt Heusser / Blog, Creative Chaos, Inc Magazine, Publications / No Comments

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The […]

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Moving forward

July 31, 2023 / Matt Heusser / Blog, Creative Chaos, Favorite Things, job hunt, Testing, Tools, Training / No Comments

It’s an odd time in history. Travel budgets were cut to Cornoavirus; some never came back. Silicon Valley Layoffs for tech workers number in the hundreds of thousands. It is […]

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A CI/CD Tune-Up …

July 20, 2023 / Matt Heusser / Blog, CICD, Creative Chaos, Process, Tools / No Comments

An odd thing has started to happen to us in the course of our consulting work. If it were just once or twice, we’d note it, and move on. Instead, […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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. […]

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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; […]

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A Followership Hack

December 3, 2021 / Matt Heusser / Creative Chaos / No Comments

You are brought into a project that is sort of a dream project. It may be a contract, it might be a new job, or it might be to do […]

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On the term “Community” (or: Software Testing Fundamentals)

September 11, 2021 / Matt Heusser / Creative Chaos / 2 Comments

Yesterday I wrote this on twitter: The chain that followed generated a fair bit of conversation. Some of the replies generated replies; it can be difficult to follow the entire […]

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Ten Years of Excelon

July 2, 2021 / Matt Heusser / Creative Chaos / No Comments

“[Some large]% of companies fail within three years and [even larger %] fail within five.”            – Every small business article ever That quote above is overly simplistic. Ending a […]

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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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