For those who don’t know, the US Government is currently offering trillions of dollars – yes, the amount is now in the trillions – to loan or purchase parts of […]
If I user twitter, does that make me a twit?
Twitter is interesting because you can say something and others can respond; when you search for a username you get the entire conversation around that individual. This means you see […]
Where’s Waldo?
Fifteen years ago I was a cadet in the Civil Air Patrol – this picture was taken at the Middle East Region Cadet Competition in 1995 (click for full-size): This […]
What do you believe about information systems?
This I am currently teaching a second-semester-freshman course on Computing with Spreadsheets. The book focuses on click-here, click-there, clicky-clicky-everywhere with formulas, functions, and graphs, but I’m trying to make the […]
… and the lighter side
– From xkcd.com … And SwashBookingNo, I spelled it right – Swash-Booking. My collegue and friend James Bach, has a new video up on Competitive Swashbooking. The basic idea is […]
Alternatives to (testing) Certification
Earlier in the week, I suggested that certification was one way to demonstrate commitment to craft – that there were other ways. Lisa Crispin asked me to expand on what […]
Can we talk testing without testing philosophy?
My latest post to the agile-testing yahoo group:Ben Simo asks how we can talk testing without talking philosophy. If you will permit me, I will try to expand on that. […]
Plagarism?
I got an email today with a link to this post, pointing out that the vast majority of the material was simply taken from my site without attribution. In “the […]
Quality, Agility, Maturity, and Discipline
A few weeks back, James Bach made a post on the death of quality. In the comments, Michael Butler wrote: I think we should toss the word ‘quality’, period. Instead, […]
Learning from Management
Business Management is a new field that evolved in the 20th century – that, for the most part, has a jump on software development by about fifty years. This weekend, […]
The creative tester
My latest post to the Agile-Testing List: I heard an interesting line awhile back from James Bach; I will paraphrase him. If I recall correctly, Bach’s argument was they every […]
You wake up one morning and …
Over the past eighteen months, I’ve slowly stopped referring to myself as a dev/tester, and, instead, now refer to myself as a tester/developer. In other news, I’m pretty sure the […]
Certification – III
I wanted to write something on certification for April Fool’s Day but Scott Ambler beat me to it. (Shakes Fist at Scott!) Actually, for something serious: In theory, I am […]
World Agile Qualification Board – II
When I got my first impression of this group, I was very careful to hold back public judgement. It looked really bad, but I wanted to find out more before […]
The World Agile Certification Board
It turns out there’s a group called the world agile certification board that is going to, ta-da, certify agile developers and testers and such. You can google them; I won’t […]
Big Testing Up Front
Hey, if I don’t have time to create content, can I re-use it? My latest post to the Agile-Testing Discussion Group: — In agile-testing@yahoogroups.com, Steven Gordon wrote:Again, that is not […]
Tweet, Tweet, Tweet
The mini-semester starts next week and I am teaching IS 171 at Calvin College; Soccer Coaching starts next week, oh, and the whole family is sick, there’s that day job […]
The psychology of (test) history
In yesterday’s post, I introduced the idea of history of mathematics, and how it might be applied to testing. I followed that up with my own list of important publications […]
History of Ideas in Software Testing
Yesterday I started reading Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams by Crispin and Gregory. Oh, it’s a good book. I think the authors deserve serious applause […]
GUI-Driving Tools
I posted this as a comment on James Bach’s Blog and thought it was worth sharing here: Not too long ago I had to give a demo of a GUI-Driving […]