Today I was asked an interesting question about how I felt as a female tester and whether I thought I needed or wanted a group focused on Women in Agile. I had to think a bit about my own history …
Read more →This week the rodent program managers have become Nutria: When I stopped to talk to them on Thursday, they told me that one of the development leads had confessed to both the capybara and nutria monikers and they think another …
Read more →As in most offices, there is a bit of a tradition of pranking at my office. Pranks that cause physical damage, make it impossible for the victim to work or which are mean are discouraged but some fun pranks still …
Read more →I was just in a meeting at the Evil Day Job where we met with representatives from Author It. Author It is a software suite designed for documentation management and production and I’ve only heard a few rumbles about it …
Read more →Ruby Gems can be a little interesting to manage, especially to someone as new to it as I am. In the course of my own self-education, I’ve compiled a little list of what I consider the basic commands. Hopefully this …
Read more →If you want to know where your Ruby installation is looking to do Gem installations, you can enter the following at a command prompt to find out: gem sources You’ll get back a message that looks similar to this: *** …
Read more →Today marked the last edition of the Rocky Mountain News, a print newspaper that has been in business almost 150 years. While I am saddened by its demise, it does make me ponder the ways technology and society have changed …
Read more →There’s a common myth in software QA at the moment that if you hire an SDET and they whip you up some test automation, you’ll have achieved “good” testing. Honestly, I’m not quite sure why this myth still exists. Just …
Read more →Just a note that I’ll be a tad distracted as I job hunt. The big layoff at Microsoft included my position. Will write or manage projects for food!
Read more →I picked up this great tip via Bob Garrett’s pointer to David Petherick’s The Next Web website . If you are using Twitter’s browser UI, you can get the basic information on another user by typing whois UserName and clicking …
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