Seven things I learned at CAST
My CAST debrief from last week ended up being mostly about personal reflection, but I also wanted to call out the some of the things I picked up more specific to testing. After going through my notes I picked out what I thought where the important themes or interesting insights. There are many other tidbits,… Read more
CAST 2018 Debrief
Last week I was lucky enough to attend the Conference of the Association of Software Testing, CAST 2018. I had been to academic conferences with collaborators before, and a local STAR conference here in Toronto, but this was my first time travelling for a professional conference in testing. The actual experience ended up being quite… Read more
In defence of time over story points
I have to admit, there was a time when I was totally on board with estimating work in “story points”. Briefly I was the resident point-apologist around town, explaining metaphors about how points are like the distance of a race that people complete in different times. These days, while estimating complexity has its uses, I’m… Read more
Little Alchemy: A silly little test exercise
Lately I’ve been entertaining myself with a silly little mobile app called Little Alchemy 2, a simple revamp of an earlier concept game. It distracted me enough this week that I didn’t prepare a respectable blog post. While questioning my life choices, I started to convince myself that maybe I had been playing at testing… Read more
Agile Testing book club: Goals
This is the fourth part in my series highlighting some of the lessons I’m taking from reading Agile Testing by Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory. Other entries in the series can be found here. Chapter 5 had a lot of interesting things about metrics and strategy that I’ve taken notes on and have planned to… Read more