Notes on testing, automation, and software craft.
At a client site, a few years ago, I had an interesting discussion with a 'senior programmer'. Our discussion centred on a configurable home page. A user could decide what news or other information etc, they wanted to display on their home page. They'd start off by being given a…At a client site, a few years ago, I had an interesting discussion with a 'senior programmer'. Our discussion centred… more »
"If we just run it with this data, and it looks Ok, we'll know it works" the architect says expectantly, "Right?" "You're right, We might see 'it work'", "How would that help?" I answer. "Well errh, it works, so we can put it live tomorrow." We've seen this situation before; it…"If we just run it with this data, and it looks Ok, we'll know it works" the architect says expectantly, "Right?"… more »
Lets assume we know that our software is not perfect. How can it be? Its complex, mortals created it and we don’t have enough time to test every execution path & environment – so we could never be sure anyway. This is Ok this is normal, testers deal with this situation every…Lets assume we know that our software is not perfect. How can it be? Its complex, mortals created it and we don’t have… more »