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Monthly Archives: December 2009
Clear Checks
Over the last two days I took the opportunity of silence at work to be able to work focused. Since I’m currently reading Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests from Steve Freeman and Nat Pryce I tried out their approach … Continue reading
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Educational models in historic retrospection
Anna Baik took my recent blog posts and made a reflection on her swimming lessons in a blog post. In short, she stated that up until the age of 11 years she was not taught how to swim properly. Though … Continue reading
Posted in Software Craftsmanship, Testing
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Where is your context?
Just finished reading through the rumble of the year between Matt Heusser and Alan Page on code metrics. Marlena Compton seems to have facilitated the session very well, since I haven’t heard of any casualties. One striking phrase from Alan … Continue reading
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Slaves of the 21st century
Lately, there are lots of factors motivating this rant. Since I just finished Shrini Kulkarni’s latest blog post I got reminded to finish this write-up the sooner the better.
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So…what tester are you?
A while ago Rob Lambert wrote down a list of tester types. The Software Testing Club has now published the tester types as an eBook for free. Make sure to get your copy of it. In the case you’re asking … Continue reading
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Patterns for Test Automation
Robert C. Martin brought up a blog entry yesterday called The Polyglot Tester. He argues about the Behavior-driven development style of automated tests the table style encouraged from FIT, Slim, RobotFramework and others. While I’m not going to jump into … Continue reading
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People Learning
Nearly everything in software involves some humans doing the job. Today I got a phone call: Caller: Do you have some resources for me? Me: Sorry, I don’t have resources for you here. Just people. Reflecting back on my university … Continue reading
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Multiple facets
As a swimming trainer I was taught that I reach some of my students with some exercises, some of my students with some tactile impulses while some others need to be taught the model by showing them my movements. Keeping … Continue reading
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On Education
Last Friday I visited my old university where I studied up until just four years from now. The place where I learned how to learn. It was amazing how little changed beside the fact that students nowadays get charged a … Continue reading
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Context-driven projects
A few days ago I cleared the case for Dialing the Manifesto. The bigger picture is indeed context-driven methodology construction. For this I will borrow some ideas from the Context-driven Testing school and from Alistair Cockburn’s Just-in-time methodology construction.
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