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Stuffing My Brain, Part 05

Refactoring I'm familiar with. Ken Pugh I'm familiar with. Ken Pugh talking about prefactoring...

Author: humbugreality Date: 03/16/2005

Stuffing My Brain, Part 04

First up today: Elisabeth Hendrickson discussing how in the world testing can survive in an Agile...

Author: humbugreality Date: 03/16/2005

Stuffing My Brain, Part 03 [Prologue]

Today I'm attempting an all-day tutorial: Better Software -- No Matter What. Speaking is Scott...

Author: humbugreality Date: 03/15/2005

SD From Not Me

By the bye, the official SD blog is at https://sdexpo.blogspot.com/. I'm cross-posting there, but for...

Author: humbugreality Date: 03/14/2005

Stuffing My Brain, Part 01

I'm at Software Development West this week. My brain always hurts by the end of the week (this is my...

Author: humbugreality Date: 03/14/2005

Hunt The SDE/T

Mark asks: So how do you find tester-developers? Certainly a job description that says "QA" seems...

Author: humbugreality Date: 03/09/2005

Talkie Walkie Trustie

Recently I read through the notes from Brett Pettichord's workshop on Homebrew Test Automation. It's...

Author: humbugreality Date: 03/02/2005

Slow And Steady Wins The Race

When I was a fresh-faced programmer I was the fastest codeslinger around. I could spew code out like...

Author: humbugreality Date: 02/23/2005

Grading On A Curve

A topic I've been pondering of late is grading test cases. If I have two test cases that appear to...

Author: humbugreality Date: 02/16/2005

Good Enough

While I personally believe that every bug is worth fixing, the reality of business often causes the...

Author: humbugreality Date: 02/09/2005

Test Me

Our BVTs have grown rather encumbered and encrusted of late, so we recently embarked on a project to...

Author: humbugreality Date: 02/02/2005

You Can't Fix Every Bug

Apoorva writes:Handling bugs when you are relatively close to ship date? Would like to hear some...

Author: humbugreality Date: 01/26/2005

Exterminate Those Bugs!

When I close my email program if often doesn't really close. The UI disappears, but Task Manager...

Author: humbugreality Date: 01/19/2005

Choose Your Own Adventure

When you're in college December and May are the big "What do I want to do with my life?" points, but...

Author: humbugreality Date: 01/12/2005

You Gotta Work!

Apoorva asks:How do work assignments take place for STE's? An example would be, I was testing this...

Author: humbugreality Date: 01/05/2005

Grow, Darn You, Grow!

Apoorva writes: Being a team lead, one would take it as his duty to bring out the best in his team...

Author: humbugreality Date: 12/29/2004

Tis The Season For Overeating, Fa La La La La, La La La La

The division holiday party was this weekend. A Beatles cover band that also did just about...

Author: humbugreality Date: 12/15/2004

Repro This!

Pop quiz: A tester finds and logs a bug. Some days (weeks (months)) later a developer picks up the...

Author: humbugreality Date: 12/08/2004

Bad Error Message! Bad! Bad!

I was xcopying some folders this weekend. (xcopy: the poor man's backup system.) Everything was...

Author: humbugreality Date: 12/01/2004

Software Statistics Engineer?

I recently read an (internal, so I can't give a link, sorry) article by a developer pundit. In the...

Author: humbugreality Date: 11/17/2004

Milestone Ho!

We're currently in the interregnum between milestones. Rather than rushing in to the next milestone...

Author: humbugreality Date: 11/10/2004

I'm a Tester, Jim, not a QA Engineer!

If you ask any random set of testers what their title is, about half of them will answer with some...

Author: humbugreality Date: 10/27/2004

System.Console.WriteLine(My.BlogRoll.ToString())

I've received a few requests for my blogroll. I considered posting it here all nice and categorized...

Author: humbugreality Date: 10/20/2004

Just As, Not Less Or More

Kate comments on my previous blog post Why I'm An SDE/T:Writing code to break other's code is what I...

Author: humbugreality Date: 10/13/2004

Why I'm An SDE/T

WH writes:I've got an on-campus interview with MS and I'm (hopefully) looking at an SDET internship....

Author: humbugreality Date: 10/05/2004

Another Mrmff Person Blogging!

For awhile I was the only person on the Mrmff team (we're not announced yet so I can't give details,...

Author: humbugreality Date: 09/23/2004

Monkey Want A Banana?

I run a virtual (i.e., via Sharepoint and email) tutorial on application design. Recently we started...

Author: humbugreality Date: 09/22/2004

Yes Virginia, Developers Really Can Test

I've been coding for something like twenty years, but I've only really been testing that code for...

Author: humbugreality Date: 09/08/2004

What's Your Strongest Language?

Futura writes that s/he has been a developer and then a tester for many years. In that time, s/he...

Author: humbugreality Date: 09/01/2004

Baby Steps

Stuart responded to my post "Show Me" saying that, basically, he's in the same boat as (based on my...

Author: humbugreality Date: 08/25/2004

Show Me

Dave Liebreich posted some while back what I presume is a question he asks prospective employers:...

Author: humbugreality Date: 08/18/2004

I Am Such A Geek!

Every year my family draws names to decide who gives gifts to whom at Christmas. (Trying to figure...

Author: humbugreality Date: 08/14/2004

Test Hooks == Happy Customers

Test hooks don't have to be special code written specifically for your tester's needs. Oftentimes,...

Author: humbugreality Date: 08/11/2004

Hook, Line, and Tester

"Testable" is one of those words with a bajillion meanings. Dave Catlett, a Test architect here at...

Author: humbugreality Date: 08/04/2004

Go Ahead, Mock Me

So you have a UI or component or something that you want to test, but you don't really want all the...

Author: humbugreality Date: 07/28/2004

Preemptive Testing

Chris posted a great comment a while back that I am going to mine for a series of posts. He starts...

Author: humbugreality Date: 07/21/2004

See Braidy Tester Read Code. Read, Braidy Tester, Read!

I've been reading through code for one of the tools we are investigating using. This particular tool...

Author: humbugreality Date: 07/14/2004

Cook It Up

"new-tester" commented on my Hallmarks of a Great Tester post to ask"I was wondering if you know...

Author: humbugreality Date: 07/07/2004

True Stories In Test Automation

[The following is a true story. The feature has been changed to protect the unannounced, but the...

Author: humbugreality Date: 06/30/2004

Weird But True

Weird Al Yankovic's song “Frank's 2000 Inch TV” is the perfect speed for jumping rope!...

Author: humbugreality Date: 06/26/2004

Hallmarks of a Great SDE/T

All companies have a job ladder a person "climbs" as they progress through their career. Often this...

Author: humbugreality Date: 06/23/2004

Hallmarks of a Great Developer

If you ask me, I'll tell you a great developerPlans before codingA great developer takes the time to...

Author: humbugreality Date: 06/16/2004

My boss is blogging

My boss, Adam Ulrich, has joined the blogging ranks. Go forth and read him posthaste...

Author: humbugreality Date: 06/04/2004

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