notes and rants

Ever have one of those periods of time where you work your butt off all day long and at the end of the day realize you barely made a dent in the backlog of work that has to be done "asap"? That was the last two days for me. My wife was generous enough...

Obviously, I have a silly peeve about mixing QA and Test. They're not the same thing. I'm certainly not the first to bring this up . IEEE 12207 defines QA as “... a process for providing adequate assurance that the software products and processes in...

I forgot when I posted part 1 & 2 that I was booked solid (literally 9-5 every day) teaching last week. On top of that, I had papers to write, a research project to stay on top of, and a handful of articles I was committed to reading. That didn...

Answering this question may be where the core of the ambiguity lies. If I were to ask ten random testers (or “QA” folks) what the role of testing was, chances are good I’d get ten different answers. Since I don’t have time for any interviews this afternoon...

I have started and stopped writing this post at least a dozen times. The mis-use of the QA term is a big peeve of mine. Let me rewrite that last sentence with appropriate emphasis. The mis-use of the QA term is a big peeve of mine . In other words...

I heard last week that my presentation was accepted for PSQT ...kind of. I received a notice that my presentation was accepted, but there wasn't a speaker slot for me. I act like a speaker (I submit my paper and presentation like a speaker, and show...

I wanted to reflect a bit on why my posting has dropped off so much since I changed positions at Microsoft. I'm not convinced that my postings will become more regular while I'm in this position, but on the other hand, I don't see why they shouldn't....

...not very guilty, but definitely guilty. I've never worried much about the gaps in my posts over the last 9 months, but I've realized recently that I actually have a few readers. I've run into three people over the last two months who have mentioned...

Two months away from blogging, and a two month old daughter at home. It doesn't take too much deduction to come up with the correlation. I took 7 weeks away from work - 3 vacation combined with the 4 weeks of paid parental leave MS offers to new dads...