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There’s a new kid on the block for QA / testing question and answer sites – the SQA Stack Exchange, brought to you by the good folks behind Stack Overflow and Server Fault among others.I hope this one gets more traction than the older testing.stackexch…

I’m heading to the Atlassian AtlasCamp next week with three other guys from work; it should be two and a half days of fun and intensity (plus seafood and beer ), learning how to extend JIRA / Fisheye / Crucible and meeting lots of developers from At…

Quick post to hopefully help others with an error I got when moving our Hudson instance from Windows to its new home on a Linux server.The basic migration is super easy – just zip up the Hudson home directory (default on Windows XP is C:\Documents and …

I’m currently consulting at a large corporate outfit in Silicon Valley – sometimes it’s a bit like going back in time to the mid-90s. They’re using CVS and most developers don’t have much visibility into the repository, so one of the first things I se…

Warning: this is a bit more political than my usual tech-heavy posts.I was leafing through James Bach’s blog the other day; James is one of today’s leading writers about software testing and always well worth a read. He referred to an excellent post b…

Warning: this is a bit more political than my usual tech-heavy posts.I was leafing through James Bach’s blog the other day; James is one of today’s leading writers about software testing and always well worth a read. He referred to an excellent post b…

I attended the excellent Atlassian Starter Day on Wednesday; it was a great session with many highlights (including a surprise appearance by Tom Cruise !) and worthy of multiple posts.With DevOps Days USA fast approaching (I’m on one of the panels), it…