In aviation, the "1 in 60 Rule" is a rule of thumb used by pilots to approximate heading errors and the necessary course corrections. In a nutshell, it states that for each degree off course over a distance of 60…
I attended the DAQAA meeting last week where Scott Sauber and Max Zimmerman from Lean TECHniques presented on Azure DevOps and provided an overview of the various features. Azure DevOps is the "new", rebranded version of Microsoft Team Foundation Server…
I attended the January DAQAA meeting where Kylee Tilley presented on "Reading Pull Requests", and how they can be useful for testers, not just developers. As Kylee mentioned in his talk, there aren't a lot of resources available online that…
I recently attended a conference session about a team’s lessons learned from thousands of bug fixes. I thought the session might cover some patterns detected in the defects found, persistent defects that continued to appear even after being “resolved,” how defects were prioritized and…
In May I attended my first software testing conference in person, STAREAST in Orlando. I sat through most of the sessions, taking notes, which is in part why I was a bit caught off guard when the first speaker of the day said…
Since repetition is the key to learning, in my last post, I began sharing some ways for software testers to improve and become more marketable, following a webinar by Mike Lyles who made the point that “Testing is Not a 9 to…
I watched a recent webinar with Mike Lyles making the point that “Testing is Not a 9 to 5 Job”. He described a number of ways for software testers to learn, and to improve their career as software testers. He started with…
About this time a year ago, I received notice that my contract at the time was coming to an end. Shortly after this, I received a phone call informing me that I did not get another position I had recently…