Bobbing for Embedded Apples
How does having a software tester in a team impact quality?
Anne-Marie Charrett
How's your signal to noise ratio going?
It's not only engineers that need to deal with S/N (Signal to Noise Ratio).
Test Managers have to deal with lots of noise, manage projects, deal with stakeholders, identify potential future risks, maintain test environments, hire testers, and meetings, meetings & meetings. And traditionally, when you sign
Hi, my name is Done and I'm conflicted
If there is ever one word that highlights the difference between a tester and a
developer’s mindset it has to be the word done.
Developers¹ tend think of done as a form of sign off. A story is done when the
code is complete. For many developers, it’s
A Developer's Ode to a Tester
Oh tester why dost thou despair?
The code is right of this we are aware!
We verify. We know what we do know
No need to doubt and think of all this woe!
Instead be bright and bring us certainty,
Let Done be Done, thus ends this homily!
Nobody — calls me — chicken
One of the morals of the Back to The Future
[http://backtothefuture.wikia.com/wiki/Chicken] series is being able to walk
away from a fight. It took three movies for Marty McFly to learn this
self-control.
Walking away from a twitter stormOne thing that the scriptwriters failed to
predict
Take the 'Crappy Work' Litmus Test
We’ve placed a ban on crappy work within my test team. From now on, we declare
that the testing team will refuse to do crappy work.
The challenge is in knowing how you're doing good work or crappy work? This is
why I’ve created this simple
How will Continuous Delivery affect network traffic?
I was recently in New York and had a chance to walk along the High Line. The
High Line is a disused overhead train line converted into a walkway and park.
It’s a really lovely walk.
I was interested to learn that the train line had been built in