Association for Software Testing

Welcome to Friday! Here are 5 points worth sharing, all based on what I'm thinking about or dealing with right now:

Being new to a workplace means your initial impressions are useful snapshots of how the company operates. Writing those snapshots down can help identify bad patterns or processes. I wrote a 5-page assessment after 30 days that's proving to be quite ...

Whenever my brother is between gigs we get to collaborate on cool things. Recently we’ve been experimenting with livestreams. Is this podcasting? Maybe I should google that (not using Google, of course, but using a search engine). We’re doing live testing demonstrations, critical thinking sessions, Question Hospitals, and a series that examines AI use critically. […]

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Every season starts the same way. Umpire calls it. Doesn't matter who's on the field.

The 1990s had two kinds of power hitters. McGwire and Sosa broke records by getting bigger, swinging harder, putting up numbers that made the sport gasp. Then there's Griffey Jr. and Cal Ripken Jr. Same era, same competition. Hit .300 their whole careers on mechanics, discipline, and ...

Pick an urban park with paved paths, and beside it you'll see the path people actually take. Worn in the grass. It's called the desire path. First instincts suggest ...

Some posts come easy. And then there are stretches where you sit down to write and nothing shows up the way you want it to.

Robert Smith of The Cure wrote in different emotions depending on where he was. Sometimes you get an album like Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me. Sometimes you get one like Pornography. Then you get Disintegration, which sits somewhere in the middle of all...