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July 31, 2023 / Matt Heusser / Blog, Creative Chaos, Favorite Things, job hunt, Testing, Tools, Training / No Comments

It’s an odd time in history. Travel budgets were cut to Cornoavirus; some never came back. Silicon Valley Layoffs for tech workers number in the hundreds of thousands. It is […]

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Testing Secret #2 – The key to test velocity

May 18, 2023 / Matt Heusser / Blog, Creative Chaos, Testing, Video / No Comments

  We could define test velocity as the speed at which we cover the software in order to final risks to quality. If we spend time looking deeply into the […]

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What we’ve been up to at Excelon!

April 24, 2023 / Matt Heusser / Agile, Blog, Creative Chaos, Testing, Writing / 1 Comment

With things slowing down a bit, our Managing Director, Matt Heusser, has been out and about a little more, and we have new material. Given it’s been awhile since we’ve […]

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Currency Converter

April 14, 2017 / Matt Heusser / Testing / 2 Comments

This is a test exercise. U. S. Dollar amount Canadian Dollars Mexican Pesos Euros Equivalent in … Validate Reset Calculate Set to 5 The time is?

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More on the “Attack on the Testing Role”

June 22, 2016 / Matt Heusser / Agile, Creative Chaos, Testing / No Comments

About a month ago I took a slide from James Bach’s Orcas Island Training and posted it to twitter. The internet became very upset, I suspect more from the writing […]

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We’re going to Orcas Island

January 20, 2016 / Matt Heusser / Agile, Conference, Creative Chaos, Testing, Training / 1 Comment

“The shoemakers children have no shoes” may be a common expression, but it is common because it is true enough, enough of the time. The mechanic’s car is a beater […]

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What have we been up to?

December 1, 2015 / Matt Heusser / Agile, Conferences, Creative Chaos, Presentations, Reading, Testing / No Comments

It’s been a busy few months at Excelon. The New York Trip, a brief European tour, Justin went to Boston for STPCon, thanksgiving, lots of writing – actually lots and […]

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Footprints in the Sand

March 16, 2015 / Matt Heusser / Agile, Holistic/Systems Thinking, Process, Testing, Tools / 1 Comment

I came across a lot of ideas in graduate school. Some, like Test Driven Development, Extreme Programming and Scrum skyrocketed my career forward. Others were models – a way of […]

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What Are People Saying About TestRetreatNYC?

February 28, 2014 / Matt Heusser / Conferences, Creative Chaos, Testing / 3 Comments

In the three days since we announced TestRetreatNYC in August, we’ve sold half the tickets. Many of the folks attending the conference are coming back; they been to Test Coach […]

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The Software Testing World Cup

February 6, 2014 / Matt Heusser / Creative Chaos, Skill Building, Testing / 2 Comments

Imagine a world test competition, held over the internet, on your continent, in a time zone that is reasonable for you, on a Saturday, with local judges you know and […]

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New Articles — and an announcement

May 14, 2012 / Matt Heusser / Agile, Creative Chaos, Process, Software Engineering Classics, Strategy, Testing, Writing / 3 Comments
A poster on simplicity

I just got back from interop, the conference for emerging technologies that connect business – from data center to cloud to switches, servers, and software. It was an incredibly busy […]

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Four Testing Strategies

May 7, 2008 / Matt Heusser / Metrics, Testing / 4 Comments

I’ve spent a good deal of time lately thinking about how we frame the problem of software testing – and how we solve it. It impacts how we see the […]

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The Wikitest Framework

May 1, 2008 / Matt Heusser / Testing / No Comments

UPDATE: I want to do a post on the importance of limiting ambiguity and making sure you have as much meaningful consensus as possible – a counterbalance to my last […]

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100% Test Automation

April 28, 2008 / Matt Heusser / Testing / 1 Comment

A recent post I put out to the Agile-Testing List: The original poster asked:> I have been asked to work out a system to make a 100%> automated testing solution […]

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The Nine Forgettings

April 7, 2008 / Matt Heusser / Process, Software Engineering Classics, Testing, Video / No Comments

“If you measure the wrong thing, and you reward the wrong thing, don’t be surprised if you get the wrong thing.” — Lee Copeland Lee’s talk is about 34 minutes […]

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Explaining Exploratory Testing

April 3, 2008 / Matt Heusser / Testing / 4 Comments

I’m a big fan of exploratory testing. I believe it can be a much more effective method of software testing than hard-coded automation or manual scripts, both of which suffer […]

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Extreme QA?

January 24, 2008 / Matt Heusser / Testing / No Comments

Back in 2002, James Canter and Liz Derr wrote a paper on “Extreme QA.” While I don’t agree with everything in the article, and I think their use of the […]

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Is it a DSL or an API?

January 9, 2008 / Matt Heusser / Testing / No Comments

One of the “new new” things in developer-centric testing is using Ruby to create customer acceptance tests in a unique, domain specific testing language. Chromatic takes a humorous look at […]

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Lighting Talks Web Page Up –

December 29, 2007 / Matt Heusser / Conferences, Testing / 1 Comment

I am now officially in recruiting mode for lightning talks to ST&PCon, and have added a web page about lightning talks – here.

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Greased Lightning (Talks)

December 13, 2007 / Matt Heusser / Conferences, Testing / No Comments

Lightning Talks are ten five-minutes talks in a sixty-minute slot. As a speaker, I enjoy them because they sharpen my mind. There’s no time for an introductory joke, no long […]

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