Archive for the ‘QA music’ Category
Monday, August 26th, 2019 by The Director
You know what’s better than spreadsheets? Spreadsheets exported from one system that you have to manually enter into another system, and the spreadsheets are continually updated in the middle of the worksheets where you’ve already manually typed out hundreds of rows.
Fortunately, there’s Five Finger Death Punch for tasks just like this.
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Safe for remote work, but if you’re in an awfice, not so much. It is called “Burn MF” after all.
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Monday, August 19th, 2019 by The Director
If there’s ever been a song that really expresses the daily grind of QA, this is it.
Hellyeah, “Welcome Home”
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The album of the same title won’t be available for another month.
Sadly, I just tipped my age: Old enough to buy music on physical media.
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Monday, July 29th, 2019 by The Director
You might not want to turn this one up if you work in a workplace that requires a tie. Or pants.
Dope, “Die, Motherf—er, Die”
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Or maybe you do.
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Monday, July 22nd, 2019 by The Director
It’s been a while since we’ve had any Shinedown on the blog, so here’s “Monsters”:
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I know, it’s been a while since we’ve had anything on the blog. I’m working on it.
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Monday, March 4th, 2019 by The Director
Well, not this song, but the message it conveys.
“Mantra” by Bring Me the Horizon
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Yeah, I’m still here. I’d say I’m still testing, but I have found myself on a couple of gigs where I spend most of my time with Agile artifacts expressing that some testing is done. Not as much as there should be, though. Perhaps I should get back to writing more.
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Monday, October 15th, 2018 by The Director
Unleash the Archers, “Test Your Metal”
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Monday, September 3rd, 2018 by The Director
U.D.O., “I Give As Good As I Get”:
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Remember, testers and quality assurance professionals: You should always give at least as good as you get. If not better than you get.
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Monday, July 30th, 2018 by The Director
I’ll let Lzzy Hale and Halestorm take this one:
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“Uncomfortable”.
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Monday, July 16th, 2018 by The Director
As you probably know, I’m a big fan of Leo Morachiolli, a Norwegian scientist proving every week that metal makes everything better.
Here is his cover of Peter somebody’s song “Sledgehammer”:
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“I want to be your sledgehammer” is right on my business card.
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Monday, June 25th, 2018 by The Director
Three Days Grace, “The Mountain”:
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Monday, March 19th, 2018 by The Director
Testament, “Centuries of Suffering”:
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Yes, I just got the new Testament album, Brotherhood of the Snake . Which is what I’m planning to call the Testers’ Union when I get enough signatures.
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Monday, October 30th, 2017 by The Director
Fozzy, “Judas”:
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Now go out there and betray some friendly software for a couple bits of silver.
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Monday, October 23rd, 2017 by The Director
“Indestructible” by Disturbed.
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I know, the song is almost as old as this blog is. That doesn’t make it any less relevant.
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Monday, September 25th, 2017 by The Director
Currently on heavy rotation deep in my darkened QA lair is this song by Rise Against, “The Violence”:
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Clearly, I’ve been clicking the replay button too much to do any real writing lately.
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Monday, June 5th, 2017 by The Director
Paralandra, “All Fall Down”:
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Well, it’s our job to make the software fail early and fail fast.
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Monday, May 22nd, 2017 by The Director
The Mothers of Invention, “Trouble Every Day”:
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Don’t just watch the trouble. Be the trouble. For your developers, anyway.
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Monday, May 15th, 2017 by The Director
Not Des’ree. Motionless in White, “Loud”:
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You gotta be loud
You gotta be rude
so the world can hear you
You gotta be crass
You gotta be cold
it’s everything we know
So just be yourself, testers.
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Monday, May 8th, 2017 by The Director
Ded, “Anti Everything”:
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Especially Mondays.
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Monday, April 24th, 2017 by The Director
Kenny Loggins, “Danger Zone”
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You know that’s what I listen to when I set the load testing tool to ramming speed .
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Monday, April 17th, 2017 by The Director
Ozzy Osbourne, “The Road to Nowhere”
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Which is from one of Ozzy Osbourne’s comeback albums, almost twenty-five years ago, old man.
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