Instinct 0.1.8 has been released. This is a maintenance release resolving some minor bugs and packaging issues from the 0.1.7 release earlier this week.

I just loved this advertisement for a senior architect. Here's a clue as to how "hands-on" they expect him or her to be:

You will also have a proven ability to make sound decisions in high pressure environments and possess the ability to think laterally across many resource requests within complex projects. You will have high standards of written and oral communication skills and proven experience of people performance management techniques.

A few days ago, Michael Bolton, Pradeep Soundararajan and I were sitting around talking about software testing. (Shocking, I know.) Pradeep brought something up that has been on my mind lately: we need more testing videos. Importance of Visual Examples...

I wanted to review some of the books I had on performance testing, so I decided to share some of the results here. Specifically, I was looking for some taxonomies related to performance bugs, tests, and risks:Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications by Meier, Farre, Bansode, Barber, and Rea has an excellent chapter (Chapter 3) [...]