Five for Friday – 8/11/2023
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How to Keep Your Product Development on Course with the 1 in 60 Rule
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…
Want to be a better tester? Keep a journal
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…
Better Software Testers – Part II
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…
Better Software Testers — Part I
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…