Testing & Movies & Stuff

We all have to start somewhere, even superhero vigilantes. Earlier in my career, when I first started working with tech, I always wondered how developers solved problems. My first jobs in tech were customer service related. I took phone calls. I wrote up issues with products. I reported my own investigations. That's as far as I was allowed to go. Then, a few years later, I was offered the opportunity to do something more around development. This was exciting to me because I found I had a passion for good working software, not because the company needed to have good working software, but because the poor customer service folks who had to explain poor working software to people that would call to ask for directions or who would find defects and report them. That was where my passion was when I first started in software development as a tester. The Vigilante For Quality My first year was akin to any superhero's first year. You think you are doing the right thing by ...

Honestly, I didn't really lose it, it was buried with all my other writing notes. I wanted to post this today as a reminder that if you work in the tech industry, you are not non-technical. I'm sure someone out there will disagree with that statement, but I feel like it's important to keep saying it. Inclusion vs exclusion. You may not be as technically skilled as someone else, but that doesn't mean you are non-technical.  This is the full text of the planned 99 second talk I gave at TestBash Philly 2017 (I omitted some things for time, but wanted to post the original here). Recognizing Your Technical Might Who has a computer or smart phone? As owners of these things…have you called yourself Non-technical? Yes - Me Too!  It’s Bullshit! How many you have been free IT service for your relatives? Me too. We tell our devices all kinds of things everyday. We give our devices instructions, and those instructions trigger other instructions. We have become so clever in d...