Last week I came back from Let’s Test South Africa. As always, Let’s Test stood up to its name. It’s a small conference, with a lot of hands on-learning, and a focus on community. It’s about testers meeting other testers, Read more…
Last time, I gave you the short-short version of thermodynamics. We talked about how entropy grows rampant, as well as creating waste in the system, if it doesn’t have constant energy input. Let’s get back to technical debt. The technical Read more…
Goodheart’s Law states that when a metric becomes a goal, it is no longer a good metric. I don’t know when technical debt became a metric. But SonarQube calculates and reports it as such. If this calculation is correct (you Read more…
We’re getting there. Here’s the final nail in the coffin: We are bad at translation and unfortunately, we do a lot of translations. In a typical application development, we’ve got a user who has a problem: “Why can’t I see Read more…
On to the next issue: We trust in the “others”. Way too much. Have you ever considered how much of the code we actually write makes of the whole application? I mean, let’s start with hardware. Computers, wires, antennas, satellites. Read more…
We’ve looked at a couple of excuses to where bugs come from, now let’s dig deeper. And we’re going to start with something that’s hard to admit: We don’t know exactly what we’re doing. The best of us already know Read more…
While we’re on the subject of favorite excuses, let’s talk about a couple more I got. It’s not my fault! pic.twitter.com/p2jeziwFpt — James Grenning (@jwgrenning) July 22, 2019 It looks more like an escape pod than a bug. Ironically, “don’t Read more…
“What do you mean? When a mommy-bug and a daddy-bug (or any other gender bug) love each other very much…” Well, that would explain how they multiply. But seriously, what gives? It’s 2019 (I’m pretty sure in ten years time Read more…
Here’s a bit of news: I’m going to Let’s Test in November! I’m really excited, for a couple of reasons. The first is – it’s Let’s Test, baby! I’ve been to the last couple of Let’s Test event in Sweden, Read more…
