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DDD in a distributed world video

Here’s the video of my presentation titled ‘DDD in a distributed world’ from the DDD Exchange 09 conference in London last month. In the presentation, I discuss how domain driven…
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Build folders with sample files I’ve been working with a web application that uses an assortment of graphic file types. I’ve built a folder with at least a “one of each” file type the application works with. When I need a graphic…
Jul
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Spec Workshops at the UK Test Management Forum I’ll be speaking about specification workshops at the 23rd UK Test Management forum, which will take place on Wednesday 29th July at the conference centre at Balls’s Brothers, Minster Pavement. For…
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Black and White and Red all over…. As I was reading it, I felt a mixture of pride, satisfaction and surprise. I didn’t realise I could write so well….maybe it’s to do with the fact its a published article, or maybe its because…
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Percent connection-pool utilization When performance testing, a lot of time gets spent calibrating your tests. To do this effectively, you often have to calibrate using multiple methods. One method I use is to look at percent…
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I am going to Gran Canaria Desktop Summit

Everybody is blogging about it, so do I.

Tomorrow I will be travelling to Gran Canaria to attend the Desktop Summit.
If you’re interested in testing, I will be presenting Mago on Wednesday.
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How to connect RFT script to iSeries DB2 Occasionally, we need to retrieve DB2 data from within our automated script. This is necessary for the parameterization of our automated tests and it will make them data independent. For example,…
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Dark launching and other lessons from Facebook on massive deployments I came across this note from the Engineering team at Facebook which talks about how they managed to smoothly launch their recent ‘pick a username’ feature. The title of the note is, appropriately…
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Why Tester is Cheaper Than Developer Another article in the series of “What to do to make life better” and perhaps accurate diagnosis? Welcome to the discussion leave the comments … 1. Nomenclature - Tester vs Developer
Who is the…
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Software Glitch Limits Alcohol Availablity; QA Gathers Pitchforks, Torches

As Joe would say, maybe they should have tested more:

Dozens of “temporarily out of stock” signs dot the shelves of some state liquor stores, and store managers say they’re not sure when their…
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Concurrent live and active sessions When performance testing, a lot of time gets spent calibrating your tests. To do this effectively, you often have to calibrate using multiple methods. One method I use is to look at concurrent live…
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Cicero On The QA Career Path
For his arduous duties include not merely the actual pleading, but also the intellectual task of preparing his cases.  That is the reason why, in spite of all the recognition, pleasure, fame, and…
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A Non-Testing Book for a Tester
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I have a couple of presentations/discussions coming up after the summer. The peers and colleagues to which I present are very intelligent and “on the ball”, and so I thought it…
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Coding Katas

A few weeks ago at the local Ruby Users Group meeting there was a suggestion of actually writing some code at the meeting. The suggestion was to use a Ruby Quiz exercise. It was quiz #16, a…
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More agile and software-development Haiku Time has passed, and I thought it was time to update my thoughts on what’s critical to successful software testing (and development). While originally, I started noting important ideas for agile…