I just posted this to the agile-testing list; I thought it was worth sharing. More test challenge to come! //Begin PostI have seen many organizations try to embrace agile, compromise, […]
Sidebar –
Before finishing off the test challenge – The December Issue of Software Test & Performance Magazine is out. The theme is on test automation, and our monthly column is on […]
New Testing Challenge – III
I addressed some clarifying questions yesterday, but I thought of another one: What kind of answer are you looking for? Most of the answers we’ve had so far have been […]
New Testing Challenge – II
Have you ever played pac-man? In pac-man, there is a simple, ostensible game: Eat the dots before any of the ghosts get you. However, there is a hidden game – […]
A New Testing Challenge
I’ve been spending a good deal of time lately thinking about the cognitive process of testing: What makes a good test case? How do we “know” that the software is […]
Life is production issues
I do want to explore quality, and uncertainty, and ROI. For that matter, here’s a story I’d like to explore: On November 7th, we ate at Pizza Hut, and I […]
What do you want to read next?
Folks, I’ve got a ton of ideas to take Creative Chaos. I’ve been spending more and more time lately involved in discussions of KanBan – which is an evolving method […]
More insight from Joel Spolsky
Then suddenly I noticed (shock!) that not only was the author a journalist, not a scientist, but he was actually an editor at Time Magazine, which has an editorial method […]
The Decline and Fall of Agile
Jim Shore recently wrote a thoughtful piece “The Decline And Fall of Agile.” There is a good point-counterpoint discussion on InfoQ.com. This isn’t a big shock to me; I wrote […]
JabberWocky — II
There’s more to the poem than a good URL. First, head off and read JabberWocky. The Poem is actually a poem-within-a-story – it is a poem that Alice reads in […]
The next (next-next) thing to being there ..
Brian Marick recently did a keynote at Agile Practices ’08. While we have no video, and, sadly, no audio, he has made the entire text of his keynote available on […]
A decent test URL
Say you’re testing an application, like Blogger, that allows the user to type in a URL, and then should have a link show up in the edit window. You are […]
And now for something completely different …
Years ago (decades ago?) I was a cadet, cadet officer, and later adult officer in the Civil Air Patrol, the US Air Force Auxillary. While my responsibilities have pushed out […]
The Rise of the Priviledged Worker
Economic Times are tough indeed. Security is hard to find. Yet there are some people who seem to always succeed despite tough times – and no, I am not talking […]
When should a test run unattended? – III
First off, I’ve revised the title of of the series. I’m all for automating work that can be described and /precisely/ evaluated. For example, let’s say you have a PowerOf […]
Programming Parables
There are certain stories that should simply be a part of every technologist’s background – they explain a kind of thinking about the world. Most of them, like the story […]
Sometimes, words aren’t enough
(Sidebar: More coming the test automation series. Really. Just not today.) Some people learn through explanation. Some have emotional reactions and enjoy anecdotes. Some like statistics, and others go for […]
On Being An "Old Dude"
Some thirty-year-old just put a post up on theJoel On Software Forum: Should I get out of tech while I’m reasonably young? Now, our youth-obsessed North American Culture bugs more […]
Cloud Computing is the new XML
In April of 2000 I took a development course and got a free copy of XML Magazine. I didn’t get what the actual value of the technology was. A few […]
Blank Sheet of Paper Syndrome
(No, I haven’t forgotten about Test Automation. I’m just trying to leverage my time in the best possible way. Most of this post came out of a recent discussion on […]