I was recently a judge at ISTC, the Israeli Testing Cup finals. So how does one judge testing? What makes some testers better than others? A few things to note about the competition, which differentiates the testing situation from regular work: The team is presented with a product to test that they know nothing about, apart
New post on Everyday Unit Testing. Started as a rant, and based on too many conversations I had. Does making members public a real danger? Check it out.
It’s a great privilege to be a featured author on DZone’s 2015 edition of Code Quality and Software Agility. Along with other cool articles and infographics, you can find my “Refactoring in a Legacy Code Jungle” article there.
My old post “Why Microsoft makes bad programmers” made waves last week on Twitter. And so, I decided to write about how I see things five years later, now that I’m not fully in the MS world. Well, basically the same. Visual Studio (and other IDEs – it’s not a Microsoft specific problem) is getting better
To improve we need transparency. We cannot solve problems we don’t see. We can’t improve an invisible process. We need people to speak out about how they feel, how their work is affected. In order to improve, my team needs me to admit I’m late, and not hide I’m working for two weeks, digging a hole, and find out
New post on Everyday Unit Testing, about how we can measure if a test is valuable. Check it out.
I usually make fun of the “become a scrum master in 3 days”. I mean, what can you learn in 3 days? Glad you asked. Once a year or so, I get a chance of going through an exercise with my army unit. These few days are plentiful of agile post material. I’ll try to cram
In one month, I’m returning to Belgium Testing Days. It’s going to be a full week of work and learning. If last time is an indication, it’s going to be awesome, organized impeccably and a good place to learn about software development and testing. That’s for everyone, of course. Now, if you want to stick
When we bought our house, we designated one of the rooms as “ the computer room”. It was kind of small office, with a couple of book shelves. Then, with the children, we’ve added more cupboards and shelves and computers. It was no longer the computer room, it was a storage room. “Where is X?”
