Author Archives: Heather

About Heather

I am a bit of a hybrid BA / QA person, with some project management and development thrown in for good measure. I am fascinated by the ways we manage to make our development projects harder than it feels they need to be and with finding ways to untangle those issues. So while I do a lot of testing, my biggest contributions tend to end up being the clarifications and negotiated agreements that are reached in the tricky areas and the discovery of unexpected interactions between parts of the system.

Observation, or How to Steal Like an Artist, Testing redux

Posted on April 30, 2011 by Heather

I came across a citation the other day for the blog post “How to Steal Like an Artist (and 9 other things nobody told me)“, by Austin Kleon. Given my feeling that some artists get way too possessive of any … Continue reading →

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How the Study of Art informs my Testing

Posted on April 27, 2011 by Heather

I study art in my spare time, including perusing art related blogs and attending classes. The thing that intrigues me is how much overlap I find between some of those topics and several aspects of what goes in to thoughtful, … Continue reading →

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How development debt becomes a Hydra

Posted on April 24, 2011 by Heather

When we talk about “technical debt” it seems to convey the idea that you are creating an obligation to fix things later that will behave nicely and predictably, like an open balance on your credit card. You know what you … Continue reading →