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Stuffing My Brain, Part 05
Refactoring I'm familiar with. Ken Pugh I'm familiar with. Ken Pugh talking about prefactoring...
Author: humbugreality Date: 03/16/2005
Stuffing My Brain, Part 04
First up today: Elisabeth Hendrickson discussing how in the world testing can survive in an Agile...
Author: humbugreality Date: 03/16/2005
Stuffing My Brain, Part 03 [Prologue]
Today I'm attempting an all-day tutorial: Better Software -- No Matter What. Speaking is Scott...
Author: humbugreality Date: 03/15/2005
SD From Not Me
By the bye, the official SD blog is at https://sdexpo.blogspot.com/. I'm cross-posting there, but for...
Author: humbugreality Date: 03/14/2005
Stuffing My Brain, Part 01
I'm at Software Development West this week. My brain always hurts by the end of the week (this is my...
Author: humbugreality Date: 03/14/2005
Hunt The SDE/T
Mark asks: So how do you find tester-developers? Certainly a job description that says "QA" seems...
Author: humbugreality Date: 03/09/2005
Talkie Walkie Trustie
Recently I read through the notes from Brett Pettichord's workshop on Homebrew Test Automation. It's...
Author: humbugreality Date: 03/02/2005
Slow And Steady Wins The Race
When I was a fresh-faced programmer I was the fastest codeslinger around. I could spew code out like...
Author: humbugreality Date: 02/23/2005
Grading On A Curve
A topic I've been pondering of late is grading test cases. If I have two test cases that appear to...
Author: humbugreality Date: 02/16/2005
Good Enough
While I personally believe that every bug is worth fixing, the reality of business often causes the...
Author: humbugreality Date: 02/09/2005
Test Me
Our BVTs have grown rather encumbered and encrusted of late, so we recently embarked on a project to...
Author: humbugreality Date: 02/02/2005
You Can't Fix Every Bug
Apoorva writes:Handling bugs when you are relatively close to ship date? Would like to hear some...
Author: humbugreality Date: 01/26/2005
Exterminate Those Bugs!
When I close my email program if often doesn't really close. The UI disappears, but Task Manager...
Author: humbugreality Date: 01/19/2005
Choose Your Own Adventure
When you're in college December and May are the big "What do I want to do with my life?" points, but...
Author: humbugreality Date: 01/12/2005
You Gotta Work!
Apoorva asks:How do work assignments take place for STE's? An example would be, I was testing this...
Author: humbugreality Date: 01/05/2005
Grow, Darn You, Grow!
Apoorva writes: Being a team lead, one would take it as his duty to bring out the best in his team...
Author: humbugreality Date: 12/29/2004
Tis The Season For Overeating, Fa La La La La, La La La La
The division holiday party was this weekend. A Beatles cover band that also did just about...
Author: humbugreality Date: 12/15/2004
Repro This!
Pop quiz: A tester finds and logs a bug. Some days (weeks (months)) later a developer picks up the...
Author: humbugreality Date: 12/08/2004
Bad Error Message! Bad! Bad!
I was xcopying some folders this weekend. (xcopy: the poor man's backup system.) Everything was...
Author: humbugreality Date: 12/01/2004
Software Statistics Engineer?
I recently read an (internal, so I can't give a link, sorry) article by a developer pundit. In the...
Author: humbugreality Date: 11/17/2004
Milestone Ho!
We're currently in the interregnum between milestones. Rather than rushing in to the next milestone...
Author: humbugreality Date: 11/10/2004
I'm a Tester, Jim, not a QA Engineer!
If you ask any random set of testers what their title is, about half of them will answer with some...
Author: humbugreality Date: 10/27/2004
System.Console.WriteLine(My.BlogRoll.ToString())
I've received a few requests for my blogroll. I considered posting it here all nice and categorized...
Author: humbugreality Date: 10/20/2004
Just As, Not Less Or More
Kate comments on my previous blog post Why I'm An SDE/T:Writing code to break other's code is what I...
Author: humbugreality Date: 10/13/2004
Why I'm An SDE/T
WH writes:I've got an on-campus interview with MS and I'm (hopefully) looking at an SDET internship....
Author: humbugreality Date: 10/05/2004
Another Mrmff Person Blogging!
For awhile I was the only person on the Mrmff team (we're not announced yet so I can't give details,...
Author: humbugreality Date: 09/23/2004
Monkey Want A Banana?
I run a virtual (i.e., via Sharepoint and email) tutorial on application design. Recently we started...
Author: humbugreality Date: 09/22/2004
Yes Virginia, Developers Really Can Test
I've been coding for something like twenty years, but I've only really been testing that code for...
Author: humbugreality Date: 09/08/2004
What's Your Strongest Language?
Futura writes that s/he has been a developer and then a tester for many years. In that time, s/he...
Author: humbugreality Date: 09/01/2004
Baby Steps
Stuart responded to my post "Show Me" saying that, basically, he's in the same boat as (based on my...
Author: humbugreality Date: 08/25/2004
Show Me
Dave Liebreich posted some while back what I presume is a question he asks prospective employers:...
Author: humbugreality Date: 08/18/2004
I Am Such A Geek!
Every year my family draws names to decide who gives gifts to whom at Christmas. (Trying to figure...
Author: humbugreality Date: 08/14/2004
Test Hooks == Happy Customers
Test hooks don't have to be special code written specifically for your tester's needs. Oftentimes,...
Author: humbugreality Date: 08/11/2004
Hook, Line, and Tester
"Testable" is one of those words with a bajillion meanings. Dave Catlett, a Test architect here at...
Author: humbugreality Date: 08/04/2004
Go Ahead, Mock Me
So you have a UI or component or something that you want to test, but you don't really want all the...
Author: humbugreality Date: 07/28/2004
Preemptive Testing
Chris posted a great comment a while back that I am going to mine for a series of posts. He starts...
Author: humbugreality Date: 07/21/2004
See Braidy Tester Read Code. Read, Braidy Tester, Read!
I've been reading through code for one of the tools we are investigating using. This particular tool...
Author: humbugreality Date: 07/14/2004
Cook It Up
"new-tester" commented on my Hallmarks of a Great Tester post to ask"I was wondering if you know...
Author: humbugreality Date: 07/07/2004
True Stories In Test Automation
[The following is a true story. The feature has been changed to protect the unannounced, but the...
Author: humbugreality Date: 06/30/2004
Weird But True
Weird Al Yankovic's song “Frank's 2000 Inch TV” is the perfect speed for jumping rope!...
Author: humbugreality Date: 06/26/2004
Hallmarks of a Great SDE/T
All companies have a job ladder a person "climbs" as they progress through their career. Often this...
Author: humbugreality Date: 06/23/2004
Hallmarks of a Great Developer
If you ask me, I'll tell you a great developerPlans before codingA great developer takes the time to...
Author: humbugreality Date: 06/16/2004
My boss is blogging
My boss, Adam Ulrich, has joined the blogging ranks. Go forth and read him posthaste...
Author: humbugreality Date: 06/04/2004