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What does "Broken" mean? PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 03 July 2008
"The foo feature is Broken"
"Widgets are completly Horked"
"Gadgets are FuBar under IE7"
"FF3 and the wiki no work-ey"

If you talk to any developer, any PM, or read the testing literature, you'll find these are bad descriptions, because they don't tell the reader what the actual problem is, or how to reproduce it.

A "bug" that can't be reproduced is a bug that can't get fixed, and...
 
I read the news today, oh boy ... PDF Print E-mail
Wednesday, 02 July 2008
This month's Software Test and Performance Magazine has a new monthly column by Chris McMahon and myself. "ST&Pedia" is an encyclopedia for software testers. You can download the issue here. The editor introduces our column on page 7 and our column actually appears on page 13. If you find value in it, subscription to STPMag is free.

In our first issue we cover charters,...
 
Management and Metrics - II PDF Print E-mail
Tuesday, 01 July 2008
After the previous post, I literally said out loud "I have to blog about this", marked the page, and put it down.

I should have kept reading. Here is the contents of the very next paragraph:

... For it is abundantly clear that knowledge cannot be productive unless the knowledge worker finds out who he is himself, and what kind of work he is fitted for, and how he works best. There can be no divorce of...
 
On Management And Metrics PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 27 June 2008
Yesterday I did a postcast interview where - it could be interpreted that I was "down" on management, that I would found the work itself uninteresting.

While I may find some of HR-y tasks of management uninteresting, I find management itself fascinating.

It is only over the past hundred years of so that we see management evolving into it's own discipline, with it's own unique set of tasks, responsibilities, and practices. Like...
 
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