I could continue to explore the tech debt metaphor, or tell you what it’s like to plan a peer conference of it’s size. I am continuing to read Peter Drucker, […]
My position on Tech Debt – II
Michael Feathers recently wrote on the tech-debt yahoo group:I think there’s a couple of different ways that we can approach all of this. One is to see technical debt as […]
What does "Broken" mean?
“The foo feature is Broken”“Widgets are completly Horked”“Gadgets are FuBar under IE7”“FF3 and the wiki no work-ey” If you talk to any developer, any PM, or read the testing literature, […]
I read the news today, oh boy …
This month’s Software Test and Performance Magazine has a new monthly column by Chris McMahon and myself. “ST&Pedia” is an encyclopedia for software testers. You can download the issue here. […]
Management and Metrics – II
After the previous post, I literally said out loud “I have to blog about this”, marked the page, and put it down. I should have kept reading. Here is the […]
On Neogtiation
If you want to get good at negotiation, you could go to your library and check out every book on the subject, then practice by doing low-risk negotiations like bartering […]
A typical response to a typical day
Chris McMahon pointed me to this, and I thought it was worth sharing here:
Best Practices?
Let’s say you invite an Olympic marathon competitor and the Olympic Gold-Medal Winner in 100 yard dash over for a late afternoon lunch. (Did I mention – while winning the […]
New Testing Magazines
Two new testing magazines are out. Subscriptions are free; they are advertising-supported and, for now, PDF based. The first, What is Testing, is organized by Vipul Kocher of What Is […]
So … What, exactly, is a unit test?
A popular testing magazine has asked my collegue, Chris McMahon, and myself, to write an article defining terms in unit testing. Of course, the biggest term of all for that […]
Unit Testing ++
(Yes, I need to follow up on tech debt. Still …) Not to many years ago, Brian Marick pointed out that you can tell when a product has “crossed the […]
The Tri-Cities in Washington State
My Mother and Father met when she was teaching and he was working in tri-cities area, and as a child I spent many happy summers there with my Grand Parents. […]
Testing Encyclopedia – I
Meta: I am currently working with Chris McMahon on a series of short articles on testing terminology. Of course, we covet your feedback, and would like to open them up […]
Lean-Agile Bacon Driven Programming …
If you’re going to program bacon-driven, it might be better to eat lean bacon. Just a thought.
Bacon-Driven Development!
As most folks know, I am increasingly disappointed in X-Driven-Y. Test Driven Development, the Original X-Driven-Y, was an actual thing that you could do, measure, and see positive results in. […]
It’s a wiki, wiki world –
I have just accepted a full-time employee position with SocialText, the Palo-Alto, California based maker of enterprise wiki software. I will continue to work out of my West Michigan Office, […]
Do you Ning?
Ning.com is a meta-social network. It is similar to myspace, facebook, and all the other new-media thingees, only instead of having a universal network that you are plugged into, it […]
Test-First Development Vs. Test Driven
There’s been a interesting amount of discussion on the Software-Testing Yahoo Group recently. Personally, I have used and I enjoy Test-Driven Development, which is a software-developer process involving writing unit […]
Fail Fast
I just made this post to the SW-IMPROVE discussion list – Tom Walton Wrote:I have had people tell me that it impossible to produce any design documentation until after the […]
What I *really* think of *most* software architecture
Read it here. — Taken from BugBash.net, my new favorite site. 🙂