Adam White

Cloud Computing — The Talk of the Town

Adam White — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:05:48 +0000

Hello Readers, We need your help getting a discussion going on cloud computing at Insidespin. Cloud Computing — The Talk of the Town Come Join us for a discussion – I know you have some ideas worth sharing. Adam

Critiquing others – furthering good ideas?

Adam White — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:23:19 +0000

Just read an interesting article called In favor of tough criticism . It’s a bit of a long read but well worth it. It’s especially timely as I am discussing testing dashboards with collegues and peers. I enjoyed the comments and I especially like the conclusion. “The future of critical exchange stands at a crossroads. [...]

Email subscriptions and RSS feed

Adam White — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:38:21 +0000

I’ve added a link to the RSS feed and Google reader right hand column. I’ve also added email subscriptions for those who don’t use an RSS Reader. Now you don’t have any excuse – go sign up!

Exploratory Writing Skills

Adam White — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:08:13 +0000

I was looking for inspiration this weekend. I have an old article improv and software testing that I’ve been wanting to dust off. While looking for “inspiration” I noticed I was applying exploratory testing skills. I wanted to share with you how I was applying this to my writing process using Jon Bach’s exploratory testing [...]

Session based exploratory testers – how do you keep track of time when on charter?

Adam White — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 23:42:23 +0000

Session based testers - how to you keep track of time when on charter?

Risks Digest

Adam White — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 20:32:45 +0000

I subscribe to and scan the risks digest every once in a while. Some of the stories make me love and hate technology. Here are 3 that I found particularly interesting this week. This article Computerized ticketing reduces ticket writing raises interesting points for people who work on software systems that are supposed to “make [...]

RSA Animate – Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us

Adam White — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 13:43:28 +0000

I LOVE this video by RSAorg. Their presentation method kept me very engaged. I decided to blog this as several people have sent it to me…. make sure you check out RSA’s other videos

InsideSpin – Contributor of the month

Adam White — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 12:32:49 +0000

I got a nice surprise last week. Turns out I’m contributor of the month at InsideSpin. How is contributor of the month determined? Strictly by the number of posts in the discussion forum. Maybe I should look at my own post about misleading metrics What is InsideSpin? It’s a new technology forum for Entrepreneurs Seeking Excellence. It [...]

Training New Testers Remotely – Part 3 of 3

Adam White — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 02:17:57 +0000

A summary of the learning from remote training.

Training New Testers Remotely – Part 2 of 3

Adam White — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 11:58:06 +0000

Cong’s response (only edited formatting) <begin response> Summary One of the most important things in testing, is to have a sufficient number of perspectives. We can either look at a product by its elements: Structure, Function, Data, Platform and Operations-SFDPO, or by quality criteria from customer’s point of view, CRUSPIC-Capability, Reliability, Usability, Scalability, Performance, Installability, and Compatiblity. Note [...]