Testers – we don’t need that any more.
In the past Uncle Bob and Martin Folwer have both pissed me off with their “we don’t need testers anymore” messages that they have delivered in the past. To be fair, Martin knows he pissed me off, i...
View ArticleThe wrong type of glue?
When the team were telling me they were having problems, i didn't fully understand what the issue was. Through a number of assumptions made by all parties, things only got worse.
View ArticleAdafruit I2C RGB 16×2 LCD+Keypad & Raspberry PI
I recently bought one of these Adafruit RGB Negative 16×2 LCD+Keypad Kit for Raspberry Pi from an Adafruit reseller in the UK (via eBay), for two reasons. 1 to use in my OBDII project, and 2 to learn...
View Articlecall yourself a software tester?
I have just been prompted (via some AdWords) to write a quick blog post around the subject of defect prevention. Not detection, prevention. For a long time the software testing community has been...
View ArticleEngineers, Rock Stars & Ninjas – Oh My!
I was reading Teresas blog post, and wondered if the problem wasn’t in the exchange she described, but in the psyche of the characters in the scenario… Within the blog post “how to find common ground...
View ArticleGoogle Play update Error 923 & 927 when updating and downloading – fixed!
I’ve owned an android device, for a fairly short period of time, but recently i found i couldn’t update and apps, or install any new ones, i kept getting obscure messages and seemingly random error...
View ArticleWhy do software test teams get a bad name?
All too often the software test team can have a bad reputation in any given organisation. Over the years i have heard the same reasons as to why the test team are not appreciated in the same way as...
View ArticleThought of the day.
Conway’s law is an adage named after computer programmer Melvin Conway, who introduced us to the idea back in 1968, yes they had computers back then kids. It states that: “organisations which design...
View ArticleFact – web performance.
Fact We expect numbers for logged-out users to be slightly faster, since there is less logic to do on the backend and there are some missing UI elements on the front-end in some cases.
View ArticleSpider, Crawlers and Bots oh my!
A collection of crawlies… User-Agent: AddThis.com robot tech.support@clearspring.com User-Agent: adidxbot/2.0 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm) User-Agent: AdsBot-Google...
View ArticleFerrograph – secrets of the
I haven’t played about with the Ferrograph LED displays for a while. Its one of those things, once the system is up and running, you don’t touch it. You change the system, that sends the content....
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