Regular features here include Elisabeth Hendrickson's articles and presentations as well as Ruminations, short opinion-based columns. To those who are curious about the origins of the website name, I offer the following explanation. The second word, Tree, has a number of meanings that make it an appropriate choice. In computer science, a tree is a hierarchy. In math, a tree is a type of graph.
Trees are fractal in nature.
Even the veins in a leaf look like a miniature tree in their own right. The process of building and testing software is also fractal. It is possible to take any part of a software development project to an infinite level of detail. The combination of the words Quality and Tree suggests a number of ways to think about software quality. Quality starts at the roots and must be nurtured.