Eid Mubarak to those who celebrate

.Janet Gregory & I celebrate 15 years of our #AgileTesting book, 10 years of #MoreAgileTesting , 5 years of #AgileTesting Condensed, 1 year of #HolisticTesting . Is the 1st one still relevant? We took a look back, and find it is. agiletester.ca/looking-back-a…

Reflections and learning on my last day working for a big bank linkedin.com/posts/leahstoc…

if you’re really good at your job, instead of getting a raise, you just get more people’s work

Remember #testeroftheday ?

I closed nominations a few years ago, but you can still check out the fantastic winners from its 3 years of operation!

2022 Hall of Fame:
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2021 Hall of Fame:
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2020 Hall of Fame:
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I get tired on the AI hype. Hopefully we soon get into a time where people really start to understand that Large Language Models (LLM) of this GenAI era are just clever token auto-completers and do NOT understand anything, even if their answers are always looking convincing.

After 39 years of programming experience, I can only agree: 'The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the OTHER 90 percent of the development time.' — Tom Cargill, Bell Labs

Hey RTL+ , Eure App ist echt Mist geworden. Ich konnte nicht mal die Helligkeit einstellen ohne dass der Stream unterbrochen wurde und ich wieder die ganze Werbung anschauen musste. Wechsel zu PiP ging nur innerhalb der App halbwegs, wenn wieder max dann black screen, nur Ton

Thad Scheer I never said that some people will not be more expert than others in some skill area. Pay equity is another issue entirely. Pay should be commensurate with the value you bring to the org. Sometimes a great tester brings way more value than an engineer. Not paying them accordingly…

Your teammates don't want to listen to you. Here's why.

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I checked the configs in dev, and they looked okay. So I went to the front end, opened the dev tools, clicked the…

Wow, the 200th issue is out! 😳

Enjoy the best news of 2023:
softwaretestingweekly.com/issues/200

Thank you all for your support!

Congrats Jason Arbon 🧙‍♂️, Marco Tulio Ribeiro, Scott Lundberg, Luc Gagan, theQualityDuck, Richard Bradshaw, Gergely Orosz, Gaurav Singh, ... (1/3)

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It’s that time of year again. Folks, have a fun time in Potsdam. I’ll be offline until it’s over.

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Happy Birthday lisacrispin @[email protected], have great new round around the sun.

The conclusion I’m drawing from the “engagement is gone” woes is that we are fully at the mercy of the algorithms (the man child has changed them a lot here). And that people don’t realize they can go to the “following” tab instead of the “for you” tab.

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