Sometimes Sausage Making Is Beautiful!
Seeing Microsoft from the inside, I often don't understand what is going on. Sometimes, however, it's just beautiful! Recently I discovered that VPN no longer worked for me, so I dropped by Security to...
View ArticleReliable Intent
I've been super busy talking with as many testers and leads on my team as I can, gathering data on what is and is not working for them. I'm completely unsurprised to learn that, as with many other...
View ArticleBook Review: Mistress of Molecules
Last fall Jerry Weinberg sent me a review copy of his scifi novel Mistress of Molecules. I pretty much read it straight through, and then didn't blog for six months so never posted my review. So here...
View ArticleI’m A Twit!
I'm on Twitter now; @humbugreality if you're interested. No promises whether I'll post there more frequently than I am currently doing here; so far I've twittered two jokes and am wondering what to say...
View ArticleTalking Clocks
We have a set of clocks counting down the time until our next big milestone, one where all the testers are, one by the devs, and one by PM. I just noticed that they tell a story: PM reaches the end of...
View ArticleCAST Away
Last week found me braving the Grand Rapids, Michigan summer (heat! humidity! sun! loved it!) to attend my first CAST. While I propped it a couple years ago, I didn't actually make it until now. The...
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CASTing About
Last week found me at CAST thanks to Jeff Atwood on behalf of Stack Exchange (now with a tester-centric site!). Thanks, Jeff! You might remember I went to CAST last year and came back way impressed;...
View ArticleMohan Sagar’s Favorite Bug
I am working as a SharePoint QA. We developed the Status Reports project. It is basically used to collect the weekly status for all the projects. You are allowed to submit the status for any project...
View ArticleJMike’s Favorite Bug
I found this bug while working as one of the first QA engineers at the MathWorks (makers of MATLAB and Simulink technical computing software) in the early 1990s. ANSI standard 754 mandates rounding and...
View ArticleBrent’s Favorite Bug
This bug is my favorite mostly because of how my experience with it transformed my career. It was 1998. I was a middle manager for a platform called CDO, Collaboration Data Objects. The API’s were to...
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