Hiccupps: Media

Some of my stuff in or for other places.

Writing

Who Cares? (in Tea-time with Testers): reprint of Who Cares?
Should the Public Care about Software Testing? (Association for Software Testing): in-depth report of the AST peer conference with BCS SIGIST summarised in Who Cares?
Should the Public Care about Software Testing? (in The Tester): reprint of Who Cares?
The Future of Testing (Aleksis Tulonen): notes in advance of a 2016 panel discussion.
Peers Exchanging Ideas (Association for Software Testing): a guide to setting up and running peer conferences.
When Support Calls (Ministry of Testing): advice for testers (and others) on being asked to get involved in technical support calls. Kindle version available.
Is Your Testing Arresting? (Gurock): can testing be beautiful and, if so, how?
You've Got To See This (Gurock): some ways in which Edward Tufte's ideas on the context-driven presentation of data can help testers.
Busting Out (Gurock): stuck in a rut with your thinking? Ublock yourself here.
Your Testing is a Joke (EuroSTAR): how joking and testing are related. Won the Best Paper prize at EuroSTAR 2015.
Not Sure About Uncertainty (Ministry of Testing): thoughts on known/unknowns, quantifiable and unquantifiable risks, testing models incorporating them and their relationship to risk-based testing.
Make Like a Tester (uTest): thoughts for testers starting a new job, with butter, elephants, Stephen Hawking and a sponge.
My Software Under Test and Other Animals (Ministry of Testing): how to talk about coverage ... in terms of animal hides.
Show Business (Ministry of Testing): communicate as clearly, correctly, comprehensively, consistently and concisely as you can.
Skills Paradox (Ministry of Testing): give chance a chance to enhance your skills.