One of the questions that I have been contemplating as of late is “where does testing fit into the overall organization?” I was given a chance to contemplate this recently because of a chance at SideReel. Our Director of Engineering decided to take…
Yesterday we focused on the if-statement and how it will run certain blocks of code when the conditions are right, and ignore the block of code if the conditions are wrong.The thing with the if-statement is that, by itself, it is limiting, and it is ve…
I was reading a blog post the other day that included a number of very similar comments. The blog post itself wasn’t hugely important (feel free to read it here). The important part was that the blog post author was showing an implementation of somethi…
One of the things I’ve been trying to master is the ability to make my tests stand on their own and not have dependencies on other tests. This seems like a standard thing to do, and we often think we are doing a good job on this front, but how well are…
I’ve taken some heat for discussing the whole “is test dead” concept due to a feeling that I was validating the concept of testing being unnecessary. Allow me to clarify my position. I do not believe, for one heartbeat, that testing as an activity is i…
The November issue of Teatime with Testers is out. I wrote an article for this issue ‘What do you mean you don’t know how many were going to St. Ives’ Check it out (along with with heaps of other testing goodness)
When I was growing up, my mother enjoyed including a bit of education in our family vacations. She read to …
Yesterday we focused on being able to determine if statements are True or False (otherwise known as “boolean logic”). The value of boolean logic, or the need to make a choice, comes into play when we start putting conditional branches into our programs…
Over the Thanksgiving Weekend, I had a chance to go down and visit my sisters and their husbands, eat a lot of food, spend some fun quality time with my immediate and extended family, and due to the proximity of where my sister lives (i.e. Huntington B…
I think if one claims that they have test automation, I mean full-fledged test automation, it must imply not only automated tests per say but it should include process automation. Automated tests (the code) are useful in same extent as manual tests whi…
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