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A Musical Metaphor for Agile EstimationMany explanations of relative sizing in agile estimation fail to capture the mix of knowledge, skill, and effort involved in completing a task. Learning to play a song seems to capture the core ideas of estimation. With a metaphor, it is easier to come up with baselines to estimate against for your own agile sizing. | 
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FDA’s New Digital Health Report To update health care providers, patients, and developers about some of the risks and benefits surrounding software products, the FDA released a report based on impact to patient safety, health benefits and risks, and best practices. |
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Testing the Ethics of AIAI is a double-edged sword. When it's being used in situations involving sensitive personal data, such as health care, banking and finance, and real estate, security is of the utmost importance—and so are ethical implications. It’s up to testers to mitigate risks and make sure AI is used responsibly. | 
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Can We Ever Find All Bugs?This may not be what testers want to hear, but Ingo Philipp is convinced we can't ever answer the question "Did we find all bugs?" It all comes back to the fact that testing can prove the presence of bugs, but not their absence. Here, Ingo explores how we find and fix bugs, as well as the notion of quality assurance. | 
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Does Your Boss Waste Your Time?It's good to eliminate any time-wasting practices, but that can be tricky when they come from your boss. Manager-imposed time wasters include micromanaging, holding unneeded meetings, requiring unnecessary status reports, and issuing ambiguous instructions. Here's how to broach the subject and get some time back. | 
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Make the Most of Your Downtime with the 3 P’sDowntime doesn’t need to mean unproductive time. It doesn’t have to be spent passively waiting for your next assignment. Instead, you can take advantage of your downtime and use it productively. If you want to maximize your downtime but don’t know where to start, focus on the three P’s: product, process, and people. | 
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Who Should Be Doing Automation Work?Testers often look at automation work as the next career step after manual testing. Automation work has more visibility at the project level, and people who do this work usually also tend to have a little more social status. But Justin Rohrman makes a case for why testers shouldn't be the ones doing automation work. | 
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Why State-of-the-Art Technology Needs Art and Tech There’s a longstanding, often passionate debate about art versus design and what separates the two. Now, many advocate that technology presents yet another creative medium, and silos are being torn down as art, design, and technology are increasingly entwined. |
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