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When I hear XP I typically think Windows XP, and then there is also Extreme Programming. But I never knew that XP means “Christ Savior”….
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When I hear XP I typically think Windows XP, and then there is also Extreme Programming. But I never knew that XP means “Christ Savior”….
After resisting joining yet another social networking site, I have recently been using Facebook to keep in touch with friends. I also see many business contacts on Facebook who I don’t know well…
That time of year when you look back ( and forward )
Highlights of 2008 for me
Got Married
Daughter graduates from uni and gets herself a cool job
Found out I had a hidden talent at doing…
I was recently asked the following question via the “Ask The Expert” feature of SearchSoftwareQuality.com.
How can we conduct performance testing, stress testing, and load testing of a Web…
If you are going to come down with a severe dose of Man Flu then make sure you start it just as the holiday season begins so that you dont lose any client fees and dont fire any snotgun shells …
December is more than half gone and we are getting to the end of the year.
In the spirit of On-Going-Improvement and the art of Good Retrospectives I decided to take a look back at these past 12…
Almost the last of my posts inspired by the SIGIST conference last week
During Bj Rollisons talk on “How We Test At Microsoft” he showed one slide that listed the tools they used
During his lightning talk on the requirements trap at XP Day 08, Allan Kelly presented the results of a Bain Consulting research which looked into the effectiveness of IT, alignment with…
Today I heard again from Chief Blackjack Pruett of the Sovereign Nation of Tejas Indians, thanking me for honoring the name of his tribe. I’m pleased that he approves of the Tejas Software…
So far in the series we have learnt how to save money by becoming more Agile and by implementing Test Driven Development. The move to these can take a little while to implement because of the…
by Miško Hevery
Recently many of you, after reading Guide to Testability, wrote to telling me there is nothing wrong with static methods. After all what can be easier to test than Math.abs()!…
You know, everyone gives a lot of thought to backward compatibility when designing for the Web. By “everyone,” I mean, “too few people,” and by “gives a lot of thought,” I mean “occasionally has…
Hi uTesters - Matt Johnston here. I wanted to quickly introduce myself and let you know that I’ve joined the uTest team as VP of Marketing. Much of my background is in building and marketing…
Well, a lot, but blogging hasn’t been among them. Here’s what’s up:
The December issue of Software Test&Performance Magazine is out. You can download the issue here; our column, which is on test…
Our test team have had a bit of feedback, which was nice, but it’s left me struggling to think of solutions.
The feedback: “I’d like to see how the test team go from the test strategy, to the test…
AutomatedQA is happy to present a new tech-paper “Automated Build Studio vs. MSBuild”
The idea came from a post by Dan Moseley from Microsoft who suggested a short poll for readers «How would…
In my previous post, we talked about tools in software engineering being either strategic purchases OR cost controllers (I’m ignoring the case of the folks who are in status quo and don’t want…
Willing to make a break from certification questions. However that is not easy. Found another topic for reading - online certification.
There are two certifications, available online: Software…