I’ve started a new blog for the folks at IT Knowledge Exchange, mostly about applying systems thinking to general IT. Unless you follow my twit stream, though, it’s doubtful that […]
Tomorrow Through the Past
(Continued Apologies to Robert A. Heinlein) This year, at the Conference for the Association for Software Testing (CAST 2011) I was a little sad, but not surprised, to hear so […]
My Independence Day (Or Something Like It)
Friends of the blog have probably noticed that, around May of this year, I went independent. There wasn’t really a big announcement. In April I was hit by a restructure […]
Quality in the Executive Suite
For this months “View from the Q”, the people at the American Society for Quality recorded an after-talk chat with Dr. J.J. Irani of Tata Group, India’s single largest company. […]
A Town-Hall Announcement — and some articles, too!
As I’ve mentioned before, I am currently running for a director position in the Association For Software Testing (AST); I also have a bit of news on that front. First, […]
Vote for Matt!
Recently the Association for Software Testing (AST) announced it’s 2011 slot of candidates for the board of directors. Vote for Matt, get free stuff! Well, actually … sorta. I’ve published […]
Controversies in Software Testing
My article “Controversies in Software Testing” was published in the July Issue of the Testing Planet. The issue is available now to anyone with a print subscription; the PDF will […]
I’ve been busy … no seriously
Last month I started a new blog called “Unchartered Waters”, for IT Knowledge Insights, on general IT, with a bit of a focus on Software As A Service and Cloud […]
CAST 2011 Emerging Topics – Deadline Extension
So Pete Walen and I talking yesterday about the CAST 2011 Emerging Topics Track, and it’s July 1st Deadline. We have plenty of proposals already, but we thought “if we […]
Matt Heusser — Running Man.
I’ve been nominated to run for one of the open board of directors positions for the Association for Software Testing. The election will take place August 9th during the Conference […]
New Articles Up – And Plenty of Them!
I was looking at my personal wiki right now, and noticed that the ‘submitted’ category seemed far too large. It was; a number of my submitted articles are now published. […]
CAST 2011 Emerging Topics – Get Involved & Deadline
This year, the Conference for the Association for Software Testing is doing something a little different — creating an Emerging Topics Track that is crowd-sourced. That’s right — anyone attending […]
More publications, new blogging, and … the cloud
As of last week, I’ve started a general IT blog for the folks at ITKnowledgeExchange. I’ll be writing about the cutting edge of IT applications — Web Services, Software As […]
Quality at Ford Motor Company
This month’s ASQ Influential Voices Post is from the ASQ World Conference on Quality and Improvement. Specifically, it’s an interview with Bennie Fowler, Ford Motor Companies Second-ranked executive for quality. […]
On Testing Standards
On the TV Show “Phineas and Ferb“, the menu for Slushy Dog has not changed since the story opened in 1929. When asked about it, Jeremy replies: “I know. It’s […]
Model-Driven Testing Dustup
Last week, Alex Knapp, a general technology blogger for Forbes.com, ran a short article on model-based testing. I took a fair bit of issue with the article, and called him […]
Two Schools of Macro Economics
There’s been a lot of discussion lately about the Schools Concept for Software Testing, generally based on Brett Pettichord’s 2003 presentation at the Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference. Cem Kaner […]
New Article on TechWell – "Software Testing Enters the Cloud"
The folks at TechWell have just published my new article “Software Testing Enters the Cloud: Opportunities and Challenges.” It’s my first article with TechWell — I’m not even sure if […]
The Past Through Tomorrow
(With apologies to Robert A. Heinlein) Strictly speaking, predicting the future isn’t just hard — it is impossible. Yet predicting the future is something testers are called on to every […]
Enough
For the past several years, whenever I work with something and things go … odd … I remember it. Often I will go to a peer I respect and tell […]