Hiccupps

  Last month I started thinking about slicing , my instinctive approach to looking for perspectives on a problem, an opinion, an observation, or anything else. This time around I've got an example to talk about. On Fridays I ensemble with a group of medical quality engineers and medical knowledge engineers. We learn from each other, about testing and about the domain. On and off recently we've looked at a project of theirs which aims to understand better what work they do, how they do it, and why it's that way, and then write it up for internal and external consumption. In one early session, with a wider group in the company, there was an extremely open and exciting conversation about what should be covered in this effort.  It was the kind of discussion that greenfield projects often have, before scope is nailed down, where the world seems ripe with possibility, no difficulties have been identified, and there is no talk of who will taking respons...

  I demoed some of my testing to Maaret Pyhäjärvi the other day. She asked a bunch of incisive questions, offered some helpful ideas on framing my results, and then suggested that I should consider speaking and writing about how I partition the testing space when I work.  She followed up on Mastodon :  ... I learn so much hearing how [James] dissects the exact necessary information and combines it with an approach that provides better results than what is usual for testing. Which, naturally, made me blush, but also reminded me that others have observed similar things. Back in 2016, during my presentation at MEWT #5 , Iain McCowatt tweeted this : [James] wields distinctions like a surgeon wields a scalpel. So now I am wondering about how I can begin to externalise more of this aspect of my approach to testing. I don't have the answer yet. Today's task is to collect some data on what I've said in the past. I'm lis...