Mike Emeigh

Now officially relocated to Arizona! Software tester. NOT quality assurance. Test advocate, test manager, test team mentor. Also at @TaxProArizona, @MWEinAZ.

[Mike Emeigh @SWTesterAZ]

@BriannaWu My mother and father always stressed the association between rights and responsibility, and I really appreciate hearing that from someone else. Rights divorced from responsibility create chaos, and we see what happens when we demand the one without the other.

[Mike Emeigh @SWTesterAZ]

@ministryoftest Misaligned expectations.

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@allenholub I’m willing to bet that those are not 5000 “unique” use cases - and that if you reviewed them you’d probably find something closer to a few hundred actual unique use cases, at most (with variations that can be parameterized).

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@ksd_18 Sometimes taking care of yourself is the most important priority you have. If you think you need it, do it.

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@jasongorman Have you tried the five-second test? https://t.co/MjPJQQpZCa

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@BentleyAudrey It was necessary when your school had a small gym and winter weather kept you indoors, back in the day - you didn’t have a lot of room to do much of anything else.

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@turtledumplin Something like this has been part of just about every ghost tour I’ve ever done.

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@ministryoftest Testers aren’t trying to break the software

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@flykkylie Outside of the Las Vegas corridor they’re not bad, but very few people ever venture outside that corridor.

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@cactusflamingo_ I agree that if you can, you should start within your own team (which it sounds like you already do). Pick a small story or two, maybe pair with another developer, and show your value that way.

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@cactusflamingo_ The “transferable skills” problem strikes again. It’ll be hard to go in cold someplace else; a new company isn’t going to take a risk on someone who hasn’t been a coder when they’re getting dozens of resumes from people who have.

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@BriannaWu On decision-making: we do the best we can with the information we have. If a decision doesn’t work out, that doesn’t usually mean it was bad at the time you made it, just that you didn’t know what you didn’t know.

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@BriannaWu It’s really not an either/or. Regardless of what decisions you make, you will be stressed - life tends to do that.

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@WhiskyBirdDog @TheNYKeri @BriannaWu I don’t think the MAGA base cares any more about Donald Trump than Donald Trump cares about them.

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@NotsoScarySheri How old is “old af”?

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@jasongorman What input did the developer have into the delivery schedule? (All too often, the answer to that question is “none”) Put the accountability where it belongs.

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@jasongorman I don’t believe for a minute that we really have either in the US.

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@jasongorman They give me something, in the time frame and within the budget to which they committed, than I’m excited to use to show my friends/colleagues/clients, “Look what I can do now!”

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@WandrMe Train, always.

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@jasongorman If I assume that (a) when the Account class is instantiated the balance is zero, (b) the Credit function adds to the account, and (c) the Transfer function moves money out of the account, the balance should be 750.0. Don’t like to assume, though.