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 […]
And now … more articles!
I’ve been busy writing and interviewing the last several weeks, and the articles are starting to come through the pipeline. Let’s see here … * 25 Agilists to Follow on […]
At Liberty
My six-year-old daughter, Rachel, likes to go for walks in the woods. To be specific, she likes adventures. Given a choice between a nice, clean, well-maintained trail and the brush […]
Get Your "They Live" On
As the old saying goes, there are two ways to make money. When selling salami sandwiches, sure, you could improve your marketing, expand, experiment with better flavors, and try to […]
Quality Metrics (…and other Fine Myths)
When I look at our North American (or at least developed nation) public systems, I am, well … sad. Education, Health Care, Government, pick any area of public life and […]
Configuration Management and Release Management
I keep hearing these term, Configuration Management and Release Management. I am slowly coming to some awkward conclusions about them. Before I come to a final conclusion, though, I would […]
It *was* a big deal
Last February I blogged a bit about privacy issues with Google Buzz. While there was a fair amount of interest, at the time, the general response was “meh.” Well, It’s […]
New Article
SoftwareQualityConnection just published my second article for them, Three Years of Scrum At Socialtext. I hope you enjoy it.
On Writing
I do a fair bit of writing. Every now and again, someone will ask where I get my ideas, or how I find the time, or for pointers on writing […]
More thoughts on the triangle test
About two years ago I posted a link to the famous ‘triangle’ test, and, the next day, some more comments that boiled down to the difference between programmer-testing and a […]
How does Social Responsibility Fit in?
I remember listening to the History 5 podcast a few years ago from the University of California at Berkely. One particular lecture struck me; the speaker was talking about commerce. […]
A New Software Website – and a free article
SoftwareQualityConnection.com is a new website about software, quality, process and general business, made possible by the folks at SmartBear Software. They’ve also published an article of mine, on “Four Ways […]
The limits of systems
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 […]