For those who celebrate - Merry Christmas!

my beautiful granddaughter

For those who celebrate - Merry Christmas!

May your days and nights be full of all things quality.

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This article originally appeared in my blog: All Things Quality

	My name is Joe Strazzere and I'm currently a Director of Quality Assurance. I like to lead, to test, and occasionally to write about leading and testing. Find me at http://AllThingsQuality.com/.

What's the State of Testing? Take this Survey.

What is the State of Testing?

My friend Joel Montvelisky has asked me to pass the word about a survey he is running in association with the magazine Tea Time with Testers. They are trying to discover the state of testing in the world today.

As Joel says:

Some weeks ago I was looking for information to write a post about the advances in the testing world in the last 5-10 years and I realized that there is no centralized set of information that provides visibility into what is happening and what are the trends in the world of testing today.  In principle I was looking for something similar to the State of Agile survey that I review each year when it goes out, and I was not able to find something that provided this information. 

So I contacted some friends at TeaTime with Testers and we decided to make this into a project.  To release a State of Testing Survey that will provide a snapshot of our testing reality and help us to capture some of the trends as they shift year by year.

Joel knows a lot about testing, is a terrific writer, and an all-around nice guy.

I'm going to be taking this survey, and I'm very interested to see the results.

Can you help out, too?

Go to http://qablog.practitest.com/state-of-testing/

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This article originally appeared in my blog: All Things Quality

	My name is Joe Strazzere and I'm currently a Director of Quality Assurance. I like to lead, to test, and occasionally to write about leading and testing. Find me at http://AllThingsQuality.com/.

It's Casual December

We are gradually becoming all top-center folks

except when someone important shows up

then we revert to being bottom-lefters

The year is flying by, and yet another Dress Code shift at my company was announced recently. copyrightjoestrazzere

Every week we have Casual Fridays

Occasionally we have had Dress Down for Charity Weeks

During the past few summers, we had Casual Summers

Now we have Casual December

If I fork over 10 bucks for local charities, H.R. tells me that I'll be permitted to wear sneakers and jeans for the month of December. (Unless someone "important" makes an appearance in the office, in which case I'll need to revert to Smart temporarily.)

We are gradually approaching the day where, for $10 per month, every day will be casual, except for the two days per year when the top brass visit.

What's taking so long? And what can we do about those two days?

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This article originally appeared in my blog: All Things Quality

	My name is Joe Strazzere and I'm currently a Director of Quality Assurance. I like to lead, to test, and occasionally to write about leading and testing. Find me at http://AllThingsQuality.com/.