Lately, I’ve noticed lots of evidence of our donkeys playing hard. Their toys, such as the rubber Wellington boots, the cotton tug ropes, Jolly balls and plastic downspout connectors are in new locations and have new signs of chewing and bashing every time I go out to see them. There’s evidence of much running and […]
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One reason I don’t post here as often as I’d like is that Janet Gregory and I have two blogs we do together. Naturally, I prefer to pair with Janet for writing blogs! We have just launched a blog series on our Agile Testing Fellowship site! We hope this will eventually include posts from some […]
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Lots of companies are using the 20th anniversary of a bunch of pale males signing the “Agile Manifesto” at Snowbird. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a fan of the Manifesto, especially the principles. It’s amazing what such a non-diverse group was able to do. At the same time, I am not a fan of labels. […]
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I used to curate a site where I gathered articles, books, webinars, courses and more related to testing and quality in continuous delivery and DevOps, especially observability. That site was owned by my then-employer, and nobody is keeping it updated anymore. It might go away, so, as a public service, I am posting the resources […]
Read More I’m not a great one for introspection. I spend my time worrying and fretting about the future, and when I do look back, it’s usually to find fault with what I did or didn’t do! 2020 has been extra challenging for people. Maybe for most people, though I have seen thoughtful people point out that, […]
Read More Pick up any article or watch any talk on a testing-related topic these days, and you’re bound to see the terms “shift left” and “shift right”. They’re almost a cliché. What do they really mean? Modern software development isn’t supposed to be linear anymore, right? There’s not one point where it starts and another point […]
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Lena Pejgan invited me to join her in her pair blogging series (see her first post for some background). We quickly decided to write about starting a new job in the pandemic – which we both did! Lena is a manager, so she has perspective for hiring new people during these strange new times. I’m […]
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Recently, I misunderstood a request to contribute my thoughts on skills for testers going forward into the 21st century and wrote the following. It wasn’t appropriate for that publication, but I still would like to share it. Courage isn’t exactly a skill, it’s more of an ability or characteristic, and we need it more than […]
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Continuous delivery and deployment (both abbreviated as “CD”) aren’t new concepts. Jez Humble and David Farley published their Continuous Delivery book ten years ago. Patrick Debois organized the first “DevOpsDays” conference in 2009, and created the #DevOps (also written as devops, devOps and Devops) hashtag. Of course, CD is new to many teams. There are […]
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