Notes on testing, automation, and software craft.
I've written about the joys of Unicode and software development before. Using unexpected data in your testing is usually a good way to test for text encoding issues. Finding and fixing these those bugs early could save your team from a host of other related issues and hackery.… more »
At 1524h, On the afternoon of January 15th 2009, US Airways Flight 1549 was cleared for takeoff from Runway 4 at New York's La Guardia airport. The airplane carried 150 passengers and 5 flight crew, on a flight to Charlotte Douglas, North Carolina. The Airbus A320's twin CFM56… more »
Many of my clients have a multi national (and multi lingual) user base, and their software receives input from a range of devices, not just those configured to UK or US locales. The sites may also need to process and publish content that is 'non ASCII'. So when I'm quickly… more »
Can you see the 74? This is an Ishihara Color Test. Its used to help diagnose colour blindness, people with certain forms of colour blindness would not be able to read the text contained in the image. The full set of 38 plates would allow a doctor to accurately diagnose the… more »
Testing doesn't complete, it might end, it might finish, but it doesn't complete. There's too much to test. If you ever need confirmation of this, test something, something that's been tested already. Better still test a piece of software, you know has been tested by someone you… more »
I recently blogged about some of the tools I use, and how some are so useful I keep using them. As I mentioned, randomness is pretty useful, and I have tools to help me generate random text. A few of my readers requested a copy of my simple random text generating script, so I've… more »