Project Write-ups

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Monday, October 26, 2015

Testing uTest: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Gig Economy

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I’m a member of an online community of testers called uTest  (the practitioner-facing side of Applause ).  The company hosts a social netwo...
Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Failing Faster, Succeeding...Soon?

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I listened to a good podcast about having and executing on ideas.  Here was the gist of it: Have an Idea: Gather info directly from c...
Monday, August 17, 2015

Magnetic Bottle Openers

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In the tradition of doing something snazzy for the DEF CON Toxic BBQ , I created a bottle opener that would both mount magnetically as well ...
Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Responding to Vulnerabilities and Weaknesses in your Product: A Tester's Perspective

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Compare and Contrast: Tesla 's response to researchers:   http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-how-tesla-will-win-the-coming-hacking...
Monday, February 16, 2015

The Uncanny Valley of User Interfaces

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Of all the things to get peeved about, you wouldn't think commercials would be one of them.  In spite of avoiding commercials by cutting...
Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Bike Rentals, An Adventure

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The local subreddit received a post requesting one of us rent a bike to a visitor while their significant other was at a conference.  This ...
Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Context-Driven Testing, An Education

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Coming into my fifth year of Software Testing, I began to rethink it as a discipline. The current debate is between traditional methods of ...