What am I supposed to do with this? I finished my last Winter, and it was a lot of fun, a lot of long nights studying and wiritng papers. I came out of it with a renewed sense of purpose and some...

Well, let’s try this again. It’s been a long time since I’ve written anything substantive. Heck, it’s been a long time since I’ve written anything at all. So let’s give this another go. Status ...

About a year ago… I took a leap out of the QA Engineering world I’d grown to love and into something new. I decided that the time had come for me to get out of the individual contributor role and i...

Last week was a frustrating week in my life of software testing. The old Imposter Syndrome hit hard, and for good reason. There were several times that I ran into a wall testing new functionality...

Dependency resolution process I ran into a trippy issue with my tests recently. I had a null pointer exception given, followed by a no such method error within a JaxB function. I did my best to m...

New beginnings look like old ones, sometimes. It’s true: I’m back at Discovery testing their managed asset architecture. My time at Lirio was short, and I will miss my friends there for sure, but ...

This is going to be hard. Not like “I have to figure out how to extract blood from a stone” difficult, but more like “How do I put into words that I love what I do?” difficult. Don’t get me wrong...

How do I decide what I’m going to automate? Well, it’s really simple: What do I need to do over and over, but don’t want to? That’s what it all boils down to. When I’m looking at something that...

Lit said it best in 1999: I am my own worst enemy. Still, this post isn’t about my alcoholism and crawling through windows, or blacking out drunk in the front yard: I am trying to pull myself in to...

Well, that went well. I gave my first major conference talk last week at @Codestock, and I think it actually went pretty well. If you want to check out my demo slides or code, you can find it her...