Four years ago — well before crisis of fall 2008 or the housing meltdown, I wrote a little piece called Against Systems that got a little bit of press attention. […]
2011 Quality Goals
Things have been a little quiet at Creative Chaos lately — most of my blogging has been over at the Software Test Professionals Community Blog. That said, every now and […]
Budgets, Badges, and Badgers – III
Earlier in the week I introduced the Malcolm Baldridge Quality Award, and my doubts about it — yesterday I posted a quick summary of my opinion. It is a serious […]
Budgets, Badges, and Badgers – II
Last time I introduced the Malcolm Baldridge Quality Award, and my doubts about it. I wrote a serious, detailed response that I will post tomorrow. In the mean time, though, […]
Budgets, Badges, and Badgers – I
I don’t talk about politics much on this blog, but there are some interesting things going on right now with the USA Federal budget that seem relevant. Consider, for example, […]
Test Management Certification
So I’m trying to figure out my 2011 (and beyond!) professional development plan. I’ve got a lot of ideas — I like to try a lot of things at the […]
One way to transition to agile
There’s been a little bit of discussion in the blog-o-sphere lately about how to “sell” agile, or how to convince senior managers to “adopt” agile, how to get buy-in and […]
The Drake Equation of Software Testing
In the 1960’s a scientist named Frank Drake came up with a formula to predict the probability of life on other planets — specifically the chance they would evolve to […]
Types of testers and the future – I
Ok, ok, it’s not literally called boutique tester. But listen to this: You: someone who can make guesses about how a website or application is going to fail, prove that […]
CAST 2011 – August 8, 2011, Seattle Washington
If you’ve been waiting with breathless anticipation for announcements on CAST 2011, wait no more: It’s August 8-10 at the Lynwood Convention Center in Seattle, Washington. Note: I am not […]
On Skill
I just got back from the software test and performance conference in beautiful Las Vegas, Nevada – conference write-up here. Just after I got back from the conference, we started […]
Interlude – About Software Engineering
(More Test Estimation to come, but first: An Interlude) By now many of us know the standard ‘barbs’ – for example, that when Winston Royce designed the waterfall model, he […]
Sheep of a different fold
For a few years now I’ve been listening and reading to the work Mary Poppendeick has produced with increasing appreciation. Then last year I had the opportunity to interview Mary […]
What Matt has been up to
Woa. Some cobwebs on Creative Chaos, eh? Seems like Matt Hasn’t been very busy, doesn’t it? Gosh, I sure hope you don’t think that. Let me bring you up to […]
Kaner On Testing
Those of you who read this blog know I’ve probably spent tens, if not hundreds of thousands of words discussing the applicability of hard metrics to the management of software […]
Is Your Software Development Organization Agile?
Elisabeth Hendrickson gave a wonderful keynote on Agile-Testing at STAREast this year, and my Friend Dan Mondello took her definition of Agile and codified it with an article. It’s a […]
Selenium IDE
The folks at TechTarget just asked me to write an article on Selenium IDE, the integrated, simple, easy-to-use, free browser-driving automation tool for FireFox. And they just published it! You […]
Matt’s Big CAST Announcement – Part II
Did you know that CAST will be serving breakfast, lunch, and snacks? They are come free with your conference registration. More than that, we are currently working on sponsors to […]
Matt’s Big CAST Announcement – Part I
So CAST – the Conference for the Association for Software Testing – 2010 is coming up, and it’s going to be about 40 miles from my place, at the Prince […]
Technical Debt: Refired
Phil Kirkham has the cover story of T.E.S.T. magazine this month, talking about technical debt. It’s a good article and I recommend it. One thing I like about it is […]