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Monthly Archives: July 2009
Meeting Principles
Yesterday I ran over a list from Esther Derby on how to improve meetings when you’re not in charge. Funnily I had compiled a similar list at our company some time ago divided into participant improvement actions and moderator improvement … Continue reading
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Some links from the week
Ben Simo explains his view on Best practices related to the first two principles of the Context-driven school of testing and makes a fantastic conclusion: No process should replace human intelligence. Let process guide you when it applies. Don’t let … Continue reading
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Reactions on Tom deMarcos article in IEEE
Here is a wrap-up of the blog entries and articles that were written as a reaction on Tom deMarcos article in the IEEE.
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Developer-tester, Tester-developer
During this week I watched the following conversion between Robert C. Martin and Michael Bolton on Twitter: Uncle Bob @dwhelan: If you’ve enough testers you can afford to automate the functional tests. If you don’t have enough, you can’t afford … Continue reading
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Misunderstood metrics
My Miagi-Do school mentor Matt Heusser placed a blog entry on metrics today. Since I haven’t got the clear problem with metrics, I needed to contact him to fulfill The Rule of Three Interpretations. In our conversation I realized that … Continue reading
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Mindful readings about Software Craftsmanship
While looking through my personal backlog of blog entries, I found this one today. It cites a quotation from Uncle Bob Martin in one of his blog posts in April. Here is the quote: I see software developers working together … Continue reading
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Something new
Today I decided to join it: Twitter. After spending some time playing around with some settings and searching for some interesting people to follow, I am still wondering what makes people curious about it. What made me join then? Today … Continue reading
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Testability vs. Wtf’s per minute
Lately two postings on my feed reader popped up regarding testability. While reading through Michael Boltons Testability entry, I noticed that his list is a very good one regarding testability. The problem with testability from my perspective is the little … Continue reading
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Overview of Agile Testing
In the just released July issue of the Software Test and Performance Magazine there is an article from Matt Heusser, my mentor in the Miagi-Do School of Software testing, and Chris McMahon introducing to the most basic terms surrounding Agile … Continue reading
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Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should
The following I got from a post on design principles related to object oriented code. You can find the whole enchilada here. Today I was surprised that – while the principle of single responsibility is rather new in the software … Continue reading
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