Hi Friends, I hope you are all doing well in these challenging times. I am continuing a research project on attitudes and experiences in outsourcing QA and Testing services. I would love to get your input on this, even if you are not currently outsourcing any of your QA and Test functions. The survey will be open for 3 weeks (ending Friday, May 15, 2020). There are instructions on the form that describe how to get a copy of the survey results when I publish them. Here is the link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfI3p5ru79vU1Urw98G71TdhUrFoAizr1tpw9BoBK4AuiKBbg/viewform Thanks fo ..read more

My friends at Practitest are conducting their annual State of Testing (TM) survey.  I think these kinds of surveys are important to know the current global picture of testing. I hope you will participate! By the way, at this link you can see the past surveys. https://qablog.practitest.com/state-of-testing ..read more

One of my "Randy-isms" is "Just because you are ready to release the code doesn't mean the user is ready to accept it." That played out for me today when I opened Thunderbird for Mac and it auto-installed the most recent release (68.4.1). Immediately, I noticed all my e-mail accounts and e-mails within them were gone, gone, gone. Deep breaths.... So, I looked into this release and saw, "Thunderbird version 68.4.1 provides an automatic update from Thunderbird version 60." However, that was not the case for me and I suspect it may not be the case for others. You must understand that I don't ..read more

If you are looking to get a well-rounded education in Selenium IDE and WebDriver, then please check out the July event - Selenium IDE and WebDriver Workshop, July 1 and 2, 2019. This is a live virtual class I will be personally teaching. Enrollment is open until Friday, June 21. That's right. We will cover both Selenium IDE and WebDriver in 2 days. You will learn by doing. For more info and to register - https://mysoftwaretesting.com/Selenium-IDE-and-WebDriver-Workshop_p_108.html Don't miss out on this opportunity ..read more

29 years ago today, I started on my first contract/consulting project here in Oklahoma City. We had been living in Olathe, KS for two years while I learned a lot about QA and testing while working at Home Office Reference Lab. But, we were ready to move back home to OKC closer to friends and family. There were no testing jobs here, so God and I created one!  That first project was a magnificent failure and taught me a lot. It has been an amazing journey taking Janet and me, and our sons, around the world as I taught and consulted software testing to a multitude of really great people. Taking ..read more

Last week (May 3, 2019) saw great economic news as published in the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ April 2019 report.  In April, 2019, the unemployment rate dropped to 3.6% (the lowest since 1969) with over 263,000 new non-farm jobs added. Also significant was the prior March report with 196,000 jobs added. That is great news, indeed. But, like with so many things, there are implications along with these numbers. Without taking away anything from this great report, it is important to remember that it is a snapshot, which will change in future reports, either up or down. Also, there are other econ ..read more

Last week (May 3, 2019) saw great economic news as published in the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ April 2019 report.  In April, 2019, the unemployment rate dropped to 3.6% (the lowest since 1969) with over 263,000 new non-farm jobs added. Also significant was the prior March report with 196,000 jobs added. That is great news, indeed. But, like with so many things, there are implications along with these numbers. Without taking away anything from this great report, it is important to remember that it is a snapshot, which will change in future reports, either up or down. Also, there are other econ ..read more

Congratulations to all the ladies who graduated the four-week intensive coursework last Friday in Rwanda! Full group, left sideFull group, right side New ISTQB Foundation Level Certification Holders ..read more

I want to share a story that was written recently by Dr. Michael Pucci, director of the Muraho training effort in Rwanda. ======= I wanted to take the chance to capture a glimpse into the deeply transformative impact our training has been facilitating in the lives of the WeCode women. We get these textures every day, but those who are focused on the back end infrastructure to enable the WeCode project often don’t get to see what is most beautiful (and motivating) about it. To me the story of Consolee in particular embodies the values we are nurturing in this learning environment (We ..read more

For those of you who have been following the story of software testing in Rwanda, here is Chapter 2. I traveled to Kigali in early March, 2019. I left Oklahoma City on February 28 and arrived in Kigali on Saturday evening, March 2 about 7 p.m.  (Yes, it is a long trip!) The objectives were to train another 50 women in ISTQB Foundation Level software testing certification, and to hand deliver 5 new HP notebook computers made possible through the generous donations of people through a gofundme page I had set up. At first, I was hoping we could have raised a bit more to buy a few more computer ..read more