Well, Yesterday’s post on KanBan generated a little bit more heat than I intended. When I clicked submit, as I writer, I thought I had completed an opinion/editorial piece I […]
Have you heard of KanBan?
My writing colleague, Chris McMahon, has made an attempt to be public and clear about his stance on Kanban. It’s been inspiring, and I, too, would like to put my […]
Why is QA Always the Bottleneck?
“Why is QA always the bottleneck?” is the second in a series on how to deal with unfair test questions; it is up this week on SearchSoftwareQuality.com. (Free registration required.) […]
Life is short – live well
I was reading The Secrets of Closing Sales yesterday and was struck by this line: Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.Talent will not; nothing is more […]
Test Management Tools
Allright folks, I’ll admit it. I’m not excited about test management tools. Oh, you could argue that I should be. After all, Test Management tools are purchased by test managers […]
Best New Software Test Writing
Over the summer, I’ve noticed a trend that bothers me just a little. Cem Kaner hasn’t blogged in months; James Bach hasn’t blogged in weeks. Michael Bolton is blogging sporadically; […]
September Software Test&Performance
I just got my copy of the September Issue of Software Test and Performance in the mail yesterday. Yes, I got a September Magazine on September first. Not August 15th. […]
Music to test by
About a year ago, Danny Faught and I team-authored an article on Music to test by for the Association for Software Testing’s magazine. Sadly, they had a change in editorship, […]
Scholarship to Software Testing Club!
Do all those paid membership sites get you down? Do you have a compelling reason that $50 USD per year is too much to pay? I’ve provided a scholarship for […]
Test Challenge – Free –
Would you like some test training absolutely free? Free like water, free like air? Often, the best way to get it is to help someone else develop training material. To […]
Interlude
Taken from UrbanjungleComic.com, which has some funny stuff. In my version of firefox, only 4 panels – the left most two panes, top and bottom, display. Ironically, I think the […]
How do we see ourselves?
And actual post to a forum I saw yesterday: HiI am new to software testing and want help with learning QTP. I am based in (city) and looking for mentor. […]
The testing renaissance
I just posted this in the Software-Testing Yahoo Group; I thought it also applies to Creative Chaos: — In agile-testing@yahoogroups.com, “woynam” wrote:>>> It never ceases to amaze me the tremendous […]
Last Agile 2009 Interview – Mary and Tom Poppendieck
And InformIT just published the last interview in the series, with Tom and Mary Poppendieck on lean thinking. For a list of all my InformIT articles, you can refer to […]
Why I /like/ Behavior Driven Development
Long-time readers of Creative Chaos will know that I’m not a big fan of X-drive-Y processes. Sure, Test-Driven Development was great, but now we’ve got so many abbreviations poured on […]
Still More Agile-2009 Preview
Yet another article – this one an interview with Mike Cohn of MountainGoat software on user stories, Scrum, and succeeding with Agile. Here’s the interview. So far, these interviews have […]
… and another Agile 2009 Interview – Scott Ambler
The interview series about Agile2009 continues. Next, I interview Scott Ambler, asking him about his Agile Maturity Proposal, Agile Methods at IBM, the slow death of technology magazines, and more. […]
Unfair test questions
Have you ever seen the cop shows where the good guy asks the criminal “what were you thinking?” The best answer I have ever seen is typically “Well, I wasn’t […]
Becoming a software testing expert
SoftwareTestingClub.com ($50 USD/year paid registration) has been having a discussion on “Becoming a testing expert” in it’s forum lately. A number of the comments were very insightful and interesting. I […]
Swamp-Ed
I’m afraid we’ve got a serious push at work, and my brain isn’t getting the breathing room it needs to generate blog statements. (Not that I would have time to […]