Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar by James Bach
I recently finished reading James Bach’s book Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar. I purchased the book mistakenly thinking it was a book on software testing (I didn’t really read the synopsis before buying...
View ArticleCreating value by writing
Different perspectives help us model problems and ideas in new and sometimes exciting ways. They can lead us to new evidence or help to re-engage our thinking about things we’ve taken for granted....
View ArticleWhat I’ve been up to lately
Things have been busy in the last month or so and I felt like sharing what I’ve been up to. Most of it revolves around software testing:April saw the start of Dan Ariely’s A Beginners Guide to...
View ArticleQuality Equals Profit
I published my first article called Quality Equals Profit, How Understanding Quality Helps Us Test in the December 2013 issue of Testing Circus magazine. Pages 16 to 18.The article is a reflection on a...
View ArticleLife as a Remote Worker
My “life as a remote worker” has just begun. A few weeks ago, the company I work for decided it was time for my small team to let go of its office and work remotely on a full-time basis. To prepare for...
View ArticleDeliberate practice of writing
Writing is hard. I’m always coming up with concepts of things to write about but hardly ever do I find the time (and/or desire) to sit down and flesh out those ideas. Some ideas are really strong, or...
View ArticleBlogging for your Career
It may not seem obvious to the casual observer but one of the major ways the testing community disseminates information is through blogs. When practitioners want to find help or stay informed of the...
View Article2015 in Review
The beginning of the year seems an appropriate time for looking back at the good and the bad of the previous year. Looking at the data to determine what things I want to continue doing or to develop...
View ArticleAs the World Turns
“As the world turns” seems like the best way to describe the busy-ness I’ve experienced recently. Feels like I’m forgetting a lot of things and to help I’ve written them down. I’m also feeling goofy so...
View Article2016 In Review
It’s a new year which means it’s time to look back at the previous year. Although this isn’t a lessons-learned or a progress report, these reviews are like a snapshot in time, forever preserved in...
View ArticleReading & Writing, the I/O
I grew up with a lot of books in our home but I rarely recall someone reading them. My mother was perhaps the most avid reader with her interest in romance novels while my dad read the daily newspaper...
View ArticleAccessibility improvements or the end of Audiobooks?
In January I started working for Laurel & Wolf and went from being a distributed employee working from home to driving daily into an office. The commute is roughly an hour each way so I began...
View Article2017 In Review
As it has become a yearly tradition I will summarize the most popular and important articles I’ve written over the year along with some other forward-looking (and likely wrong) statements mixed in with...
View Articlelate-May Updates
Some random thoughts and updates towards the end of May: On August 8th, Dwayne Green and I are teaching a workshop at the Conference for the Association for Software Testing on Domain Testing (aka...
View ArticleGuilt about not buying music
Ever feel guilty about not buying music? I don’t mean stealing, torrenting or other ways of not paying for music. I mean the guilt of not directly paying for an artists work (song, album, video,...
View Article2018 In Review
As it has become a yearly tradition I will attempt to summarize the most popular and important articles I’ve written over the year along with some other forward-looking (and likely wrong) statements...
View Articlelate-April Updates
April has come and is nearly gone without any prose being published. I couldn’t have that. You see I’ve been writing but I haven’t condensed that prose into a nice enough package to share. In the...
View Article2015 in Review
The beginning of the year seems an appropriate time for looking back at the good and the bad of the previous year. Looking at the data to determine what things I want to continue doing or to develop...
View ArticleAs the World Turns
“As the world turns” seems like the best way to describe the busy-ness I’ve experienced recently. Feels like I’m forgetting a lot of things and to help I’ve written them down. I’m also feeling goofy so...
View Article2016 In Review
It’s a new year which means it’s time to look back at the previous year. Although this isn’t a lessons-learned or a progress report, these reviews are like a snapshot in time, forever preserved in...
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