I've been invited to speak at a lunch in my hometown Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference. If we distinguish coding professionals and testing professionals I lean more toward coding but have always found the behavior of my own programs interesting and a good subject of study.
Consistent with the conference theme, the road to quality, I've chosen to recall my own growth through five decades of watching my own work struggle to meet expectations.
Memorable Programs upon which I base advice.
The first abstract I wrote was a bit harsh and maybe not what people wanted hear over lunch. I've made it more of a rambling journey that might still convey a bit of attitude.
> Programmers reason about what a computer will do in the future. We will look at how one once found confidence and now struggle to remain confident that computers will perform as expected. Like Newton’s laws, the agile practices continue to work but routinely fall short of explaining what goes on in the quantum-like world of a modern datacenter.