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 […]
Archives for 2012
Testing Has No Value
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 […]
Why I Won’t Go Back
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
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 […]
Happy Birthday, Quality Tree Software
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 […]