@AWGHodder

Testing Practice Manager at Datacom. I focus on the human aspects of software development. I care about great people building great software, responsibly.

 🏡 Wellington, NZ 👨 He/Him
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Joined May 2010
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My talk "Inclusive Collaboration - How our differences make the difference" from @AgileNZConf is online: youtube.com/watch?v=rOzwZgI1…

Agile NZ 2017 Day One - Aaron Hodder

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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Aaron Hodder (@AWGHodder) has provided his thoughts on Test Estimation bit.ly/3KPmiSc Thank you, Aaron #100DaysofSkilledTesting
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James Bach (@jamesmarcusbach) and Aaron Hodder (@AWGHodder) explained clearly about only the test case is not #testing bit.ly/45iJZdK Thank you, James and Aaron #100DaysofSkilledTesting

Test Cases Are Not Testing

Test cases are a poor basis for organizing a test process and no basis at all for measuring testing progress. Our industry's obsession with test cases must come to an end or testing as a field will...

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When people say they tried Agile but it doesn't work here
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I die a little inside everytime I hear someone say "I do automation, I don't do manual testing"
Richard Bradshaw@FriendlyTester8 Jul 2023
Your team cannot create valuable automated tests/checks without exploratory testing. You need to explore a system, to understand it enough to create valuable automation. Automation that is truly going to help the team make decisions. And not just generate noise/distraction.
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Your team cannot create valuable automated tests/checks without exploratory testing. You need to explore a system, to understand it enough to create valuable automation. Automation that is truly going to help the team make decisions. And not just generate noise/distraction.
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Kmart is my favorite day of the week
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I'm working on a testing mythbusters talk. What are your testing myths (that can be true or untrue)?
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This is Jordan Neely. On Monday, he was lynched. On the NYC subway he started telling passengers that he was fed up being hungry, thirsty and having no place to rest. He began to shout in his frustration, and threw his jacket on the floor. An ex-marine then murdered him.🧵
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Most of what we call "Quality Assurance" is actually "Quantity Assurance". Quantity of test cases, quantity of bugs raised, quantity of bugs fixed... Quality isn't measurable. But Quantity is. If you're counting something, you're counting a quantity.
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I've found 17 out of 18 checks on this first testing challenge. Frustratedly trying to find the last one! testingchallenges.thetesting…
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This story has been a while coming and I'm pretty excited to see it in print. Late last year, the editor of The Listener asked me if I could write a feature about adult ADHD diagnoses. I jumped at it, not least because it's something I've thought about for a *long* time.
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Aaron Hodder retweeted
Will Oremus
@WillOremus5 Apr 2023
Asked for examples of sexual harassment at law schools, ChatGPT named a GW prof accused of touching a student on a class trip to Alaska, citing a WashPost story. The prof is real. The rest was made up. We wrote about what happens when AIs lie about you: washingtonpost.com/technolog…

ChatGPT invented a sexual harassment scandal and named a real law prof as the accused

ChatGPT accused a law professor of harassment. But the evidence doesn’t exist.

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And I thought tech couldn't get any more reckless
@emilymbender.bsky.social@emilymbender25 Mar 2023
Carl Bergstrom has a banger thread over on Mastodon about some serious #privacy problems with #Bing #GPT. You can find the thread at this link: fediscience.org/@ct_bergstro… And in screencaps below.

Carl T. Bergstrom (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image Here's a glitch/bug/MASSIVE-FSCKING-PRIVACY-RISK associated with the new #Bing #chatbot feature that I haven't seen documented. Answers from one query bleed over into another....

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The line between not enough pancake and too much pancake is about half a pancake
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How would you write "I did grocery shopping" on a resume? “Managed the timely and cost-effective purchase of core operational supplies of a dynamic and agile team and ensured that all stakeholders had the required nutritional inputs to operate functionally.”
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Paradith@AjParadith8 Mar 2023
Does anyone have a guide for managers/peeps in work in how to communicate with people with hearing impairments, best practices, verbal comms etc.? I need one for peeps I work with and struggling to find something
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As a… – Web3 enthusiast I want to… – make AI my entire personality now so that… – I can forget about the apes I remortgaged my house for
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Conference swag: What kinds of things should conference organisers consider when thinking about swag if they are wanting to be as inclusive as possible
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Check out my latest article: My quest to find the one right answer linkedin.com/pulse/my-quest-… via @LinkedIn

My quest to find the one right answer

Nicola Lindgren posted this screenshot and asked us what we all thought the answer was. I cannot resist giving my opinion, even when not invited to, so I jumped at the opportunity to weigh in.

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