Or: The Struggle Between Good and Progress Recently I saw a tweet from Mr Bach: There is a much bigger problem than #paytospeak and that is that nearly all conference talks about software testing are terrible and conference organizers do nothing about it. — James Marcus Bach (@jamesmarcusbach) October 30, 2018 I’ve not been involved […]

I have had one reply
that I know of to my Apathy post containing useful critique. You can find it here written by a name you may know, Matt Heusser! First I have to say that I’m grateful to have a considered response. Now I’ll expand a little on the points raised, and hopefully draw an interesting conclusion.

How do you keep up to date with the test industry?

What’s the difference between a tester and a developer?

I thought, as I hadn’t updated my blog in months, that I’d post a little about the disjointed way some people in the industry talk and write about testing and how you might avoid doing the same – or if you want to continue doing the same understand the pitfalls of the language you’re using and what you might be communicating to other people. A fair warning: this won’t be news to many of you.

I assume that I’m directing myself at a group of people who know that there’s no such thing as a Best Practice, and that we shouldn’t use the term. There’s a bit of consternation around this, some people defending the term whilst understanding the nature of contextual value of practices.

This was a good listen! So good I’m inspired to comment in more space than can fit in a tweet. I do agree with basically everything mentioned, which is a shame, but it did bring up ideas for me that I hadn’t considered and ways of expressing things I hadn’t heard yet, which is a treat.

I was on 19/36…

I was on 15/28…