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What drew you to testing? What keeps you here? What would cause you to leave? I fell into testing by accident. Autodesk needed testers for a new version of AutoCAD, I had registered copies of AutoCAD, they asked if I was interested, I said "Oh yeah!",
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I have another Tester Spotlight posted! Pop over to Tester Center - via Channel 9 - to see my interview with Ivo Manolov , Test Manager for the Windows Presentation Foundation team.
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When I started writing this blog I had no idea what I was going to write about. I don't remember that ever happening before - usually I know exactly what I want to talk about and more-or-less how I want to say it. When I test, however, I find myself in
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Check out my Tester Spotlight interview with Rob Straavaldson over on Tester Center !
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Once upon a time, I thought testing was about finding bugs. Once upon a time, I thought I should be able to find every bug in my product. Once upon a time, I thought testing was about ensuring no bugs escaped to customers. Once upon a time, I thought
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I am excited to announce that SQA has asked me to fly down to Colombia to give my talk Hallmarks of a Great Tester ! I'll be speaking in Bogotá and also in MedellĂn. My wife is coming along, so we'll get a vacation out of it too. Fun fun fun! Thanks to
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This weekend I went hiking with a few of my friends. Our original destination turned out to be off limits due to a forest fire, so we decided to try a trail we had noticed earlier along the way. The signage to this trail, however, turned out to be mostly
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Dr. Dobb's Journal recently started a new column titled "Developer Diaries", where they interview a few developer types each issue. I'm not exactly a developer, but I am featured in the August issue! If yours hasn't arrived yet, or you're not a subscriber,
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They say that when you start thinking and dreaming in that foreign language you are trying to learn you are finally starting to internalize all that book learning with which you've been stuffing your brain. I wonder if that carries over to other skills...
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I'll be at SDWest next week stuffing my brain full of learning until it hurts. If you're going to be there too, let me know and let's meet up!
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Apoorva suggests, "[H]ow about linking to any other test/dev blogs/sites/resources that you frequent, or feel would do good for beginners/seasoned testers as a read." I'll do this in three parts: books permanently on my bookshelf, key blogs I track, and
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I'm excited to announce that I'll be presenting my talk "Hallmarks Of A Great Tester" at StarEast ! I have the after lunch slot Wednesday, but I think I'll keep y'all awake! So sign up if you already haven't and ensure I have an audience full of hecklers!
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Thanks to the good folks at LogoWorks I now have a logo! I didn't have any clue what I wanted at first, but I am super happy with the final result. And thanks to Register4Less I now have a ten year lease on TheBraidyTester.com . There's not much there
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I have been working on a presentation on our automation stack for many months now. I'm finally to the point where all that's left is to practice, practice, practice. Following the Beyond Bullets approach I have spent a lot of time getting the speaker
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Dr. Dobb's published my article " Achieve More Comprehensive Verification With Less Work " online - check it out!
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