Question: Ryan Maas wanted to know “why it is that when I am driving to or from work on the Eastside … I see most buses empty with signage on dictating that they are headed back to base. Can’t the buses pick up people headed across the water?” Answer: They […]
What’s too much modeling? Too much formal modeling is when you give it more time than it is worth, or when many other interesting things don’t get done because you are obsessed with the formalisms and the cool tools. Too much attention to one kind of model will starve attention […]
I was reading about Chris Barker’s research and I found this paper on Continuations in Natural Language interesting. Chris has written another paper called Continuations and the Nature of Quantification that I have yet to read but sounds interesting also.
Continuations have interesting uses, for instance the ambiguous operator can be […]
I was reading Why Rails Fixtures are No Fun last week and was going to write a great post about xUnit Patterns that would address the problems but today I saw Object Mother In Rails so I don’t need to write it up. Phew!
Jeff Barr provided this link via his linkblog:
Information Week: Inside Second Life’s Data Centers “The servers support 34 Tbytes of user-created content, and the traffic load for accessing that content is very different than a conventional Web site.“
From Opensourcetesting.org News
shUnit2 is a xUnit based unit testing framework for shell scripts (eg. sh, bash) that is modeled after the JUnit framework. It is designed to make unit testing in shell as simple as possible.
I’ve writen about being an SDET before and now here is Google’s take on the definitions of Quality Assurance (QA), Quality Control (QC) and the roll they call Test Engineering.
Here at Google, we tend to take a third approach that we call Test Engineering. We look at this as a bridge between the […]
Good stand-ups will feel supportive. When people are knocked down every time they raise a problem, they will tend to stop raising problems. Beyond preventing removal of obstacles, a non-supportive stand-up works against team dynamics. The stand-up instead becomes a ritual that team members dread [LaPlante, 2003]. It’s Not Just […]
From PowerShell for Testers:
Lately testing people have been talking about testing heuristics - tips, techniques, tactics, strategies for testing something. I have one that I call MTT. M - Mission T - Targets T - Tests
The first time I met Jeremy was just after he walked through the door at Northern Voice. I think the first words out of my mouth were “Whoa, what is up with that dude?” This, of course, was because he showed up in a yellow dragon costume, complete with hat and tail. […]