Top all-time · #18723
Alan Page
Personal blog · angryweasel.com/blogcareerprogramming
Alan Page writes Work with Alan, a personal blog at angryweasel.com about career and programming. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-03-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Alan Page's blog covers software testing and QA. HN commenters cite its posts on the Modern Testing Principles and on whether teams need a dedicated QA engineer.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Alan Page works with engineering leaders to strengthen judgment, align incentives, and build systems that support reliable delivery at scale.
What Hacker News says?
Disclaimer: context is king, we don't know your business so you'll get an "average" answer. Google and read about the Modern Testing Principles [1], it's a set of principles and a community around it (join the Slack channel through the same link) that tries to bring change to the " test reports inspire developer confidence" state of mind. There's not a lot of tangibles around it yet but it's a good start. As for cov…
Comment linking /ABTesting/modern-testing-principles/
on “Ask HN: Software Testing Philosophy?”Submitted The Myths of Tech Interviews as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI'm not too fond of the use of the term "QA", but I totally agree with the bottom line and even more. Every team need a "Quality" or "Test" representative, they can do actual testing or simply contribute to the common knowledge or direction of the team. Searching for "Modern Testing" will bring up a lot of discussions around this topic, mainly focused around the modern testing principles [1] As a side comment, when…
Comment linking /ABTesting/modern-testing-principles/
on “Does back end need QA Engineer?”Submitted The Myth of the Myth of 10x Developers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted My End at Microsoft (2018) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How We Test Software at Microsoft – Ten Year Anniversary as a story · 1 points
HN discussion