It?s been a busier than normal for me at Microville recently. My friend (and frequent soccer match viewing partner) James Whittaker ended his 3-year run at Microsoft last week. James still lives locally, and I expect that we?ll continue to collaborate in the future. The pettier downside of James? departure is that some of our shared projects now fall to me ? it?s a bit more work, but all stuff I love to do (although it may not be the stuff that my boss wants me to do). I?m sure I?ll figure out a way to fit it all in.

It looks like you can preorder Beautiful Testing on Amazon. I wrote a chapter for the book on Large Scale Test Automation. I?ll leak some details in this blog between now and when the book comes out.

The Chinese and Korean translations of hwtsam are well under way. I hope I can get my hands on a copy of each of the translations when they are available.

Next week is the yearly ?engineering forum? at Microsoft. We take one week every year and hold something that?s quite similar to a conference like SD West or PDC. We have a hundred or so talks spread over 5 days, including keynotes from the bigwigs. Our group (the larger group ? not just my little team) are responsible for putting it on, so there?s a bit of ?ship stress? in the air at building 21.

Things should be back to normal shortly. Now, it?s time to get back to those 30 ?red? todo items and 50 or so unread emails in my inbox.

Posted on: 5/27/2009 at 12:09 PM
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Been a busy week, but wanted to send a link to my materials from STAR. My presentation style is generally more discussion based, so you may not get a lot from these, but I'm happy to answer questions if you have them.

I will take some time in future blog posts to rehash some of the points for those who were not able to attend star.

The presentation is here.

Posted on: 5/15/2009 at 2:19 AM
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Another review of HWTSAM is here. My favorite quote:

All in all, this is an impressive work with a great deal of wisdom and principles - underpinned by sound theory - that would be of interest to any company that produces software of reasonable complexity.

Keep those reviews coming (and keep sending pictures of you and HWTSAM in "special" places)

Posted on: 5/10/2009 at 1:06 PM
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I'm catching a red-eye tonight to Orlando for the STAR conference. If you're at the conference, look for a bleary eyed man pecking away on a laptop waiting for check-in time and say hello - it will be me.

I have some follow up posts based on the metrics talk I'll be giving Thursday, and you can also expect tweets and conference specific notes as I see fit.

Oh yeah - I'll be signing hwtsam from 4:00 to 4:30 on Wednesday afternoon. Actually - that's my "official" book signing slot, but if you can track me down (hint - look in the bar), and you really want me to devalue the ebay price of your book by writing my name or a short note inside, I'm sure I will be able to accommodate.

Posted on: 5/4/2009 at 1:45 AM
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