Exploration Through Example

Example-driven development, Agile testing, context-driven testing, Agile programming, Ruby, and other things of interest to Brian Marick

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Wed, 12 Feb 2003

Is management more interesting than testing?

Today I'm at an editorial planning meeting for STQE magazine. The other technical editor, Esther Derby, and I have an ongoing gentle rivalry. We pretend that she only does squishy, people-oriented, management articles, and I only do people-ignoring, technology-focused articles (mainly on testing and tools).

We were listing possible article topics and authors on the white board, and I was inspired to say, "You know, the squishy management articles are more interesting than the testing articles."

She made me promise to put that on my blog. Here it is.

However, I hope what this represents is a failure of imagination - or inspiration - on my part. I moan too much that mainstream testing has gone stagnant, that not much new is happening except in the intersection of agile methods and testing (where a lot is happening). I must prove myself wrong this editorial year.

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