Miss the Mark-Up, Go to the Gulag
An interesting story about the Internet as seen in North Korea: There’s a curious quirk on every official North Korean website. A piece of programming that must be included in each page’s code. Its...
View ArticleThe Stuff QA Nightmares Are Made Of
There’s a White House petition to make the United States change from imperial units to metric units of measurement. I got two words for you: Gimli Glider, a plane that almost fell out of the sky during...
View ArticlePlease Correct Your Test Data Accordingly
Mocking up some fake addresses and using “101 Tester Way”? Bear in mind these are actual addresses: 101 Tester Lane, McEwen, TN 37101: View Larger Map 101 Tester Street, Clinton, AR 72031: View Larger...
View ArticleAn Overlooked Affront
Everybody has focused on the fact that the new CEO of Yahoo! has ended telecommuting in the company, another soul-crusher occurred at Harley-Davidson: they banned rock and roll music: Hundreds of...
View ArticleAn Important Dispatch from Gimlet
He wants us all to know about this Tumblr of animated gifs called DBA Reactions. Thank you, that is all.
View ArticleA Line To Borrow
To begin with, the thing was so antipodally at variance with the whole chain of horrors preceding it–the change of mood from stark terror to cool complacency and even exultation was so unheralded,...
View ArticleSomething To Perk You Up
Screenshots of Despair. Via tweet: Screenshots of despairscreenshotsofdespair.tumblr.com — Jonathan Korman (@miniver) April 9, 2013
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It’s How I Got Started
I’m a little behind in my newspaper reading, as you will see. But this Non Sequitur cartoon from last week might describe how one comes to become a software tester, or how one becomes a software...
View ArticleThe QA Diva: Tips and Tricks
QA shares a lot of qualities with the popular conception of the diva. We’re always demanding attention, and when we have attention, we make demands. Researchers who have studied divas in the wild...
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Re-Cognize to Avoid Mental Errors
A little story to talk about some of the ways our inattention can lead us to miss some mistakes. For years, I’d heard about an awesome British television program that, although it aired on PBS and had...
View ArticleWhy Would a Baseball Player Do That?
Ever get asked why a user would do that? Of course you do. You’ve already been asked that today. Here’s a little story for you about why the ball player trying to steal third base ended up on first...
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Five QA Things To Do In San Francisco
As some of you might be aware, I spent last weekend in the San Francisco area. What did I do? Things worthy of QA, of course, and here’s what you, too, can do while visiting San Francisco and capturing...
View ArticleTest It Like A San Francisco Hack
You might think that my recent trip to San Francisco changed my life because I keep droning on and on about it, but it’s just that social media glurging is the twenty-first century equivalent of...
View ArticleIf The Rappers Do It, Why Don’t You?
I’m a big proponent of capturing and documenting your interface style guide that captures the common rules and spellings to use in your organization’s interfaces and communications to make it seamless...
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Speaking of Too Short
Man, do I think the whole “putting the control label in the control” thing is a bad design pattern for many reasons. First and foremost, when you start typing or sometimes set focus to the control, the...
View ArticleWhat QA Decants
Six Sigma Wine. No, really. I mean, no, really, it exists. But, personally speaking, I don’t so much decant as debox.
View ArticleI Guess You Can Remove One Item From Your Compatibility Testing Matrix
WebTV, now MSNTV, is going away, and not just in a press release: Microsoft said that its MSN TV service will be closing down at the end of September, in a post on its Web site and in an email to...
View ArticleOff By 180 Degrees Error
Gimlet passes along the news story "Chrysler recalling over 280k minivans because airbags may deploy on wrong side: Chrysler has issued a recall for some 2013 Town & Country, Dodge Grand Caravan...
View ArticleUpdating Your Tests Might Be A Bit Premature
Aussie restaurateur Paul Mathis invents new letter of the Alphabet: WOULDN’T it be easier if the word “the” was just simply a letter? Well at least one person seems to think so. Aussie restaurateur,...
View ArticleWiener’s Laws of Aircraft Automation
Earl Wiener was a former military pilot who became professor of management science and industrial engineering at the University of Miami and conducted a lot of studies on how automation in the cockpit...
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