Notes on testing, automation, and software craft.
An amused but slightly exasperated developer once turned to me and said "I not only have to get all the features correct, I have to get the errors correct too!". He was referring to the need to implement graceful and useful failure behaviour for his application. Rather than…An amused but slightly exasperated developer once turned to me and said "I not only have to get all the features… more »
When you read a blog post like this, or an article on a website, can you be sure its the 'real thing'? How would you know if it had been doctored? Lets assume the 'server' is fairly secure and hasn't been hacked into. So the content is going to be OK isn't it?, it looks OK..? So…When you read a blog post like this, or an article on a website, can you be sure its the 'real thing'? How would you… more »
Last week I was performing another of my 5 minute testing exercises. As posted before, if I get a spare few minutes I pick something and investigate. This time, I'd picked Google Calendar. One thing people use calendars for is logging what they have done. That is, they function…Last week I was performing another of my 5 minute testing exercises. As posted before, if I get a spare few minutes I… more »