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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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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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Regression-Testing Redux

March 3, 2020 / Matt Heusser / Creative Chaos / 3 Comments
matt begs the community to differentiate between story and regression testing

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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Individuals and Interactions

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

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

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