Maybe I am late on the bandwagon to this idea, but the idea of touring around and embedding yourself in other teams is pretty cool.

The first tour I heard about was Corey Haines’ Journeyman tour. Basically he is driving around, crashing on people’s couches and pair-programming with them on whatever they are building. Naturally it is summarized with blog posts and video interviews.

And now Brian Marick (who hosted Corey on his first tour) has announced a tour while he treks to a conference.

Both these tours are very developer-focused. But what about a testing tour? I think it would be great if someone trekked to various types of companies in various geographic locations and tested with them. The testing community is very fragmented philosophically so fly-on-the-wall sessions could be a healthy thing if done with the right frame of mind.