The comments here are a demonstration of his claim about there being a lot of people chattering in a “loud room.” I see the same problem in software testing an

The comments here are a demonstration of his claim about there being a lot of people chattering in a “loud room.” I see the same problem in software testing and I see the same outlook with the same heuristic for improvement: just do better in an obvious way. The marketplace of software development and testing ideas is highly inefficient. Good ideas float to the top slowly and are easily buried again by transient and desperate fads. I agree that the irrationality of the market may outlast any individual’s solvency. Still, anyone who chooses the path of craftsmanship and excellence can set an example that has some chance to make the world better. The first time I wrote a comment like this in public was probably on Comp.Software-Eng in 1994, unless it was on Compuserve prior to that. The loud room has been around a long time.