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Nine-Dot Puzzle, Bewilderment, & the Art of Possibility
I closed my CAST track session with this puzzle: Connect all 9 dots with four straight lines without taking the pen from paper. The frames our minds create, define – and confine – what we perceive to be possible…Everybody hears: ‘Connect all 9 dots with four straight lines without taking the pen from paper,…
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Personal Blindspots
Weird…when you get close to something that BIG you can’t see anything at all. -Toad the Wet Sprocket, Butterflies (Fear, 1991) The subject of blind spots keeps begging for my attention lately. This is when something hits me that I did not see coming or I run into something that shocks or surprises me. Maybe this is…
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Tenacious Testing
I admire your tenacity. This sentence was a lifeline when it arrived in my inbox a few years ago. This was a perspective, which I had not considered at a time when I felt like I was flailing around in emotionally exhausting waves at work. I was learning (not so gracefully) to get used to argument and criticism. I…
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May Meetup Redux, Mobile Software Development & Testing
Eight of us (including a colleague from Mobile, AL!) gathered earlier this month for the Gulf Coast Software Testing Meetup. Thank you to Janusz Chudzynski for speaking with us about Mobile Application Software Development and Testing in iOS and Android. Janusz is a software engineer, frequent presenter, and research associate at University of West Florida with multiple mobile applications…
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Lean Style @ Seville, April Meetup Redux
I did not publicize and promote April’s LeanCoffee Style GCST Meetup as much as February’s Lean Pie, so with leaner attendance there was no need to vote on topics. Bullets below indicate the main cards we wrote up and discussed. The sub-bullets are offshoots, shared anecdotes of main topics in conversations over dinner. Thank you…
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All Kids Love Logs!
We learn from logs – application logs, system event logs, API logs, network trace logs. These are invaluable tools for testers. To not consult logs or not have access to logs is to miss out on these benefits: Save time on bug investigation.e.g., Logs can show failure conditions related to data problems or issues with error handling, thereby…
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GCST “Lean Pie” at O’Zones Pizza Pub
I want to help connect people to learn from one another to advance the craft of software testing within our area. Getting the fledgling Gulf Coast Software Testing Meetup (GCST) group going is a fun way to explore this territory. We had our 1st Lean Coffee style GCST meetup at O’Zones last week where I facilitated a…
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Career Composting
As kids, my brother and I loved to dig into our family’s enormous compost pile of oak and pecan tree leaves, vegetable scraps, and dried horse manure to find worms for Grandpa’s fishing trips. Our rewards: his ear-to-ear grin and 10 cents for every worm we found. As an adult, I sift through a much…
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… Lanessa's musings on tenacity & discovery in software engineering
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