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Diverse Discussions

November 19, 2012

So, there’s another round of gender/race drama going down on teh intarwebs. It seems that there was a conference, BritRuby, slated to run next year in Manchester, England. Only there was some criticism on Twitter of their all-white-guy lineup. Suddenly, without warning, the organizers canceled the conference. The organizers published an official statement on the […]

Tagged With: diversity, twitter conversations

Testing Has No Value

November 14, 2012

Update Nov 20: minor edits to increase clarity. Yesterday, Rob Lambert tweeted: “Testing, as an activity by itself, has no business value” — Rob Lambert (@Rob_Lambert) November 12, 2012 Turns out that’s a statement from the ISTQB Expert Level Syllabus on Test Management. Robert was tweeting it to see what others’ reactions were to the […]

Tagged With: twitter conversations

Why I Won’t Go Back

October 12, 2012

I was going through some of my old notes yesterday and stumbled across a sketch I made of a diagram of effects showing how test managers become ineffectual. (I re-created it in Illustrator since no one but me could have read my original sketch.) I’d like to say that back when I was a test […]

Bugs Spread Disease

August 2, 2012

I have wasted countless hours of my life arguing to fix bugs in bug triage meetings. Bug advocacy is a core skill for testers in traditional software development organizations that follow code-then-test practices. Over time, I got reasonably good at it. I could explain to both business and technical stakeholders not only the symptoms of […]

Tagged With: bugs, quality, software development

Happy Birthday, Quality Tree Software

April 19, 2012

Last month marked the 15 year anniversary of my decision to go into business for myself. Over the last decade and a half I have learned so very much, and had the opportunity to work with so many amazingly cool people. I feel immensely grateful. I’ve also had my challenges: strategic and financial missteps that […]

Tagged With: running the business

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