People ask me: Are we ever going to get rid of bugs? And I tell people: No. And then they pull out their machine guns and things get messy. But why is that? Are we really doomed for fighting bugs for the rest of our lives? Or theirs? Are we Read more…
The older I get, the more metaphors I use stop working over the crowd. Until the recent launch of the new Star Wars series, I lost them at lightsaber. This “walking skeleton” metaphor, which Alistair Cockburn presented a while back, is based on the old 1920s animated movies. That goes Read more…
I do a lot of clean code workshops these days; it seems that, finally, clean code gets the respect it deserves. Clean tests too. There’s one point I make (a few times even) during the workshop: While I give a lot of examples of what people think makes clean code, Read more…
Fragile tests. Even the mere thought of them, makes our stomach turn. And for good reason too. We can’t trust them. And they cost us money. First – the trust thing. We have tests that check the same code, pass most of the time, but then one build in a Read more…
Everybody wants to automate everything. Indeed, in today’s complex development environment we can automate a lot of things, from coding to building, setting virtual environments and running tests in them. Oh, and there’s the deploying to production without even thinking about it. But if you’re new to automation, this will Read more…
Ok, I’m not sure if “reportability” is a real dictionary word. But it is a word. That I may or may not invented. Anyway, here’s the thing: You tested your app, or feature, or an API, and you found something unexpected. Like this one parameter value crashes the server. As Read more…
The next webinar is going to be on what makes automation effective. I invite you to come and see how. But before we talk about the mechanics, we need to discuss how it fits into the human scenery. You may not notice, but automation can’t exist without us humans creating Read more…
Are you ready for some space exploration? Ok, we’re going on some sort of API trek, where we’ll talk about exploratory testing and how it relates to APIs. What APIs? Star Trek APIs! I love how these things come together. I’m talking about charters, session based, how automation relates to Read more…
Yass, the tests are still dirty, and someone needs to clean them! They won’t clean themselves, would they? No, it’s up to us. I know the dog means well, but it’s not enough. So what is this session about? It’s about how to take test code, filthy and ugly, and Read more…
Well that’s a new thing! Sort of new. Well, the session is not new. Everybody now does TDD in legacy code. But in Python? Gil, are you saying that you can do these things in Python? Shocked, I tell you. Well, not really, TDD principles are universal, They can be Read more…