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In Praise of the Pause
Something just happened that I think is worthy of note. On LinkedIn, a young tester asked to connect, and I accepted his request. (He actually has six years of…
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Ed Zitron Reads My Mind
Something very much like this post originally appeared on LinkedIn. Ed Zitron is reading my mind. Well… maybe not reading it, but he’s for sure…
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Do They Mean It?
There are some simple tests to determine whether Amodei (and Altman, and Musk, and Zuckerberg, and Nadella, and Pichai) are serious about any commitment to…
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On Bottlenecks
This post originally appeared on LinkedIn. Language is the bottleneck. We need to be able to understand each other and ourselves if we want good things, or if…
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Just the Facts, Please
It might okay for an organization to use LLMs in technical support — to parse a request for content, and then provide links to curated answers, call services…
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Quality Engineering Is Not Testing
There are subtle but serious problems in the testing business right now, and if we don’t attend to them they will lead to bigger problems. The core problem…
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Extended Holidays
“We’re happy to acknowledge when we make errors, and we’ve made a few in this case for sure, but also that we are willing to address those. And…
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Bugs Cost the Business
This open letter originally appeared as a post on LinkedIn. Dear QBD Books… Good software design matters. Without good software design for your Web site, users…
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What Is Testing? A Conversation with James Bach and Michael Bolton
Podcasts on Quality Assurance and Testing In this video podcast, Alex Khvastocvich sat down with James Bach and Michael Bolton to answer a deceptively simple…
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AI and The Productivity Paradox
Over the last couple of days, a LinkedIn conversation has reminded me to write about the Productivity Paradox, which appears in Taking Testing Seriously: The…
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Dis Is Weird
When my daughter was two years old, and when she saw something unusual, she would say, “Dis is weird!”, mispronouncing the word as…
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Experiment: Generating “Random” Test Data
How might we use a GPT in testing? Some have suggested that we could use GPTs to generate test data. Randomized test data can help to reduce patterns of…
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Experience Report: What Number Is This?
Last week, while preparing material for some upcoming Rapid Software Testing (RST) classes focused on testing AI, I was re-reading Stephen Wolfram’s…
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Experts?
In Rapid Software Testing namespace, critical thinking is thinking about thinking with the goal of avoiding being fooled. We have a quick mnemonic to trigger…
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AI and Rapid Software Testing
In our forthcoming book, Taking Testing Seriously: The Rapid Software Testing Approach, James Bach and I have included a chapter on AI. AI is fraught with…