March 22, 2020
Early morning, off to do some remote work. Just kidding, Early? Right. Anyway You got your task work ready for you. You know exactly what you’re going to work on today. You start coding, or writing a doc, or testing… Continue Reading…
March 22, 2020
I looked around the office, and there was no one working. No typing. No staring confusedly at code. No arguments about where to eat lunch. Empty rooms. There are more and more workplaces like that. People start remote working, or… Continue Reading…
February 27, 2020
Once more unto the breach, my friends. Once more. This time I took the Test Maintenance presentation to Tel Aviv. The presentation is right there below. Test maintenance is something nobody loves doing, but everyone must. The presentation is about… Continue Reading…
October 28, 2024
Making the “Zen and the art of Test Maintenance” workshop into an hour long presentation, I made way north on a dark and stormy night. It was lovely to see old and new acquaintances. I saw a nice demo of … Continue Reading…
December 10, 2021
Last week I came back from Let’s Test South Africa. As always, Let’s Test stood up to its name. It’s a small conference, with a lot of hands on-learning, and a focus on community. It’s about testers meeting other testers,… Continue Reading…
October 7, 2019
Last time, I gave you the short-short version of thermodynamics. We talked about how entropy grows rampant, as well as creating waste in the system, if it doesn’t have constant energy input. Let’s get back to technical debt. The technical… Continue Reading…
September 9, 2019
Goodheart’s Law states that when a metric becomes a goal, it is no longer a good metric. I don’t know when technical debt became a metric. But SonarQube calculates and reports it as such. If this calculation is correct (you… Continue Reading…
August 25, 2019
We’re getting there. Here’s the final nail in the coffin: We are bad at translation and unfortunately, we do a lot of translations. In a typical application development, we’ve got a user who has a problem: “Why can’t I see… Continue Reading…
August 12, 2019
On to the next issue: We trust in the “others”. Way too much. Have you ever considered how much of the code we actually write makes of the whole application? I mean, let’s start with hardware. Computers, wires, antennas, satellites.… Continue Reading…
July 31, 2019
We’ve looked at a couple of excuses to where bugs come from, now let’s dig deeper. And we’re going to start with something that’s hard to admit: We don’t know exactly what we’re doing. The best of us already know… Continue Reading…