Dec 9, 2018
SPaMCAST 524 features the return of Matt Heusser. Matt and I talk about the nuts and bolts of being a tester in today’s software environment including agile testing. Matt and I had covered difficult areas that anyone that is interested in quality and risk needs to think about.
Matt’s bio:
The Managing Director of Excelon Development and a member of the board of directors for the Association for Software Testing, Matt Heusser leads test training and change efforts while making as many contributions as he can to active projects. Learn more about Matt at www.xndev.com follow him on twitter at @mheusser or check out the testing show podcast on iTunes or online at https://www.qualitestgroup.com/resources/the-testing-show/
Re-Read Saturday News
We are re-reading
Bad Blood, Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John
Carreyrou (published by Alfred A. Knopf, 2018 – Buy a copy and read
along!). Chapter 9, titled Wellness Play, continues the focus on
overpromising and the toxicity overpromising generates inside and
outside Theranos.
Week 7 - Wellness Play - https://bit.ly/2rqUYk6
Previous Entries:
Week 1 – Approach and
Introduction – https://bit.ly/2J1pY2t
Week 2 -- A Purposeful Life and Gluebot - https://bit.ly/2RZANGh
Week 3 -- Apple Envy, Goodbye East Paly and Childhood Neighbors - https://bit.ly/2zbOTeO
Week 4 -- A Reflection -https://bit.ly/2RA6AfT
Week 5 -- Sunny - https://bit.ly/2AZ5tRq
Week 6 - The miniLab - https://bit.ly/2rfmwJh
Next SPaMCAST
SPaMCAST 525 will continue the conversation on story points.
Many teams find that story points are only a partially useful
tool to facilitate the flow of work within a team. Can story points
be fixed, or better yet can story points still be useful?
We will also have a visit from Jeremy Berriault with a discussion from the QA Corner.