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Writing a recommendation
Years ago, a friend at a conference turned to me and said, “Hey, you know testers. Would you take a look at this list?” Not only did I look at the list, but I knew so many of the 125 people on the...
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Time to automate the boring stuff
Timekeeping is not my strong suit. I know time exists. I just don’t notice it passing. This is most obvious when I’m in the midst of a good book and I look up to notice it’s 1 AM and I’m quite late...
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Preparing for Winter
I recently discovered a delightful niche celebration called Fat Bear Week. More than a million people voted for the final contest this year to crown winner Queen Grazer. Leading up to the final vote,...
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Thanks to everyone who came to our Time to Good DX presentation! Time to Good DX We often hear focus on the customer, but what do you do when youcustomers are your coworkers? Developers are the...
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Work Horde, Play Horde
I recently hosted a Magic-the-Gathering-themed tween party for 8 players. Yes, you read that correctly. 8 players in a format I later learned is called Free-for-All (a.k.a. Circle). Little did I know...
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Attending to networks
I have been following Esther Derby with interest for years. I find her wise counsel refreshing and I admire her ability to connect deeply with attendees at conferences and training sessions. You can...
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Thanks to everyone who came to our Time to Good DX presentation! Time to Good DX We often hear focus on the customer, but what do you do when youcustomers are your coworkers? Developers are the...
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Keep your options open
In DevOps, there’s a pervasive theme of automating toil, which many would say contains all of testing. I’m just gonna say it: I come from the testing community. We’re people who constantly look for...
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Some updated references for my Everything You Wanted To Know About DevOps But Were Afraid To Ask presentation from tonight: Cross-functional teams in DevOps Staying-with-the-problem-as-a-service DevOps...
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Minimum Viable Product Manager
At Agile2018, I attended Richard Seroter’s Product Ownership Explained session, where I heard about bad and good product owners. Product ownership/management has many facets including advocating...
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Here are some sources to dig in more after my Agile2018 session Everything You Wanted To Know About DevOps But Were Afraid To Ask: Slides & Handouts Abstract: As a career software tester, I’ve...
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Here are some resources we’re using in my Agile Testing Days USA workshop Refactoring Test Collaboration Slides Abstract Collective ownership for testing starts with understanding testing. Rework your...
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Here are the links we’re using in my deliver:Agile2018 workshop Beyond Waste: Exploratory Testing Charters in Action Slides Abstract: Think manual testing is waste? Think again! If you’re not learning...
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Announcing Ministry of Test Atlanta Last fall was the last of our Software Testing Atlanta Conference (STAC) events. An attendee at my Intentional Learning Workshop chatted with me afterward. I...
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Out of Control
Live from Vancouver … It’s Saturday … Day? The weather is lovely outside, similar to Fall in the Southern United States, but I spent yesterday inside with 22 other passionate testers at TestRetreatYVR....
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Coaching and Coffee
One morning, my office had a fancy coffee machine delivered. The machine was fancy enough that we had training sessions to learn how to use it. The machine’s controls involved a few pre-programmed...
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Leo: Bob, there is a ground-breaking new book, that has just come out. Now, not everything in this book, of course, applies to you, but I’m sure that you can see when you see the title, exactly how it...
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Perception and Certainty
A funny thing happened today at work. I found out that some of my colleagues literally see things differently. Many of us found ourselves surprised by what others perceived to be true about something...
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RSVP for the March 2014 meetup of Software Testing Club Atlanta features our own Eric Jacobson’s “Maybe We Don’t Have to Test It” from STAREast 2013: Testers are taught they are responsible for all...
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Potty training
My first experience with testing games was back at my first testing conference when Michael Bolton gave me a testing challenge at lunch: a rubber ball. I didn’t know what I was getting into, but I knew...
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