I’ve been asked to participate in a new Borland company group blog focusing on agile and other related issues. Check it out.
Month: October 2008
Agile Testing, the book
Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams, the much anticipated book by agile testing gurus Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory, is scheduled for publication in December, but apparently, it’s already available as an ebook via via Safari books online. Call me old fashioned, but I think I’ll wait for the paper publication.
Career reflection
I think the most impressive looking items on my resume are probably my stint as Director of Quality Assurance at two small companies. In reality, however, my current job as QA Architect at Borland is, by far, the best experience that I’ve had.
At the small companies, I was in charge of both architecting and implementing QA processes. At my current job, however, I am responsible for helping other groups within the company implement the processes that I devise. That’s a much more challenging and educational task than implementing my own processes, and it’s also, not coincidentally, why I sought a QA architect position at a larger company.
Finding the right testing tool
John Overbaugh offers some advice for finding the right testing tool. In addition to listing factors to consider in evaluating tools, John also offers some tips on how to elicit advice from others. Good stuff.