In my book, Perfect Software and Other Illusions About Testing , I present a list of a dozen common mis...

The question was posed: "What could I do to improve/advance on software development?" Here's what I answered: There are m...

The questioner asked, "What should be my next step to becoming a better programmer?" In response, a dozen or more advisors sugges...

The question on Quora was, "What is the best career advice for a software developer to earn a higher salary? There were many logic...

On a public forum, the question was, "What are the most important aspects of software testing?" A number of good answers were...

I was recently invited to answer the question in the heading. There were already 99 other answers, some of them very interesting. I tried r...

If you're a consultant, or want to be, you need to read this blog by my colleague, Tonya Price:  5 Ways Writing a Book Builds Your C...

Curated by Kristine Kathryn Rusch Hundreds of writing books get published every year, and most of those books are written by people ...

Way back when I wrote The Psychology of Computer Programming , I pointed out the wide variation in programming skills. Years later, people b...

Recently, "Tommy" posted the following question on Quora, a question-answer site with lots of good stuff (and some really cheesy s...

The gang was enjoying a BBQ Pig Out at Rudy's. It was a magical moment until Rusty and Millie started to argue about Agile software d...

Last week, Joe Colantonio interviewed me for his milestone 100th Test Talk . In case you haven't heard it yet, Joe extracted a few quot...

Back in the earliest days (probably before most of the readers here were born, around 1958., there was no distinction between testers and d...

My father gave me a slide rule when I was about 7 years old. I used it to compute baseball batting averages, which was what motivated me at...

[This is a guest blog by Mark G. Gray, a physicist who understands people and many other things. Reading it put a whole lot of perpective in...