So here’s a silly question: Why do we need test automation? I’m going somewhere with this, work with me. Testing and test automation are tools to reach a goal. The goal is to have a picture of quality of our system, or our product. There’s a lot going into this Read more…
If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. That’s the law of holes. Really, look it up. There are different sort of holes, shovels and diggers. But this time I’m talking about test automation effort kind-of-a-hole. Adding more test scripts is something inherent into development. We build new features, Read more…
What exactly is refactoring? Is it just changing code? What does “not changing functionality” really means? Well, you’ve come to the right place. I’ve got just the webinar for you. And not only that, I’m going to show you how to refactor, even when you don’t have tests. If you Read more…
One of my favorite podcast (about management of all things), is Manager Tools. Feedback is one of MT’s core practices, as you would assume, and feedback according to MT is always about the future. Think about it – You want to give someone feedback over the awful, or awesome thing Read more…
Black box, white box. Does our choice of perspective matter? We’ve landed this function declaration: public int add(int a, int b); We’re told that it adds two integer numbers. How should we test it? Let’s see, we can check that sending 2 and 3 returns 5. We can also send Read more…
A lot of people use the term “Edge Case”. I find it offensive. Ok, not really, but there’s a misuse of the term. While we’re at it, let’s throw in negative cases, happy and unhappy paths, etc. We tie in “cases”, which are behaviors, together with code paths. It’s a Read more…
Bugs. Unless you’re a bunny, you’re not invited. But if those bugs still show up, hit’em hard. In this webinar, I take a look at where bugs come from and how to counter-strike them. From how to make sure they don’t return, to how to not break working features as Read more…
People ask me: Are we ever going to get rid of bugs? And I tell people: No. And then they pull out their machine guns and things get messy. But why is that? Are we really doomed for fighting bugs for the rest of our lives? Or theirs? Are we Read more…
The older I get, the more metaphors I use stop working over the crowd. Until the recent launch of the new Star Wars series, I lost them at lightsaber. I discovered the same with the walking skeleton. This “walking skeleton” metaphor, which Alistair Cockburn presented a while back, is based Read more…
