Archive for January, 2008

I thought you were a tester but… you’re programming

I state no "MUST"s in here, you don’t "HAVE" to know how to program to work effectively as a tester but…when you do know how to program, then you have more options. How many more? Well…

Evil Animal = Long Tailed Rabbit


Panicky Tester meets Evil Tester

What happens when Panicky tester meets Evil Tester ? Find out in the latest episode of the exciting cartoon adventures of Evil Tester.

If you’re thinking "I’m not really sure this is a testing blog"…

…then you are probably half right.
I do have a testing blog, and this blog is the other half of that. This is all the stuff I do to improve and augment my testing skills.
These are all the notions that eventually map their way on to the testing territory.
These are all the subjects that aren’t […]

How to find out where the time goes

jWorkSheet is one of the secret tools that form part of my productivity armoury.
What does it do? Why do I use it?….

3 tips to effective freshmeat usage

You use freshmeat right? So do I. I’ve been using it for years. But I’ve only just started using it effectively. Here’s what I did…

Please stop the fiction

I have an unhealthy dislike of the current trend towards "fictional" example ‘based’ essays.
You know the type…
It was Monday and I struggled into the office out of the pouring rain and before I’d even sat down, let alone think about getting a cup of coffee and reading the latest Dilbert gag, Jane walked […]

"Martial deals with surprise" - GTD related to testing

I made some notes when watching the Dave Allen’s Google Tech Talk on Getting Things Done. In order to help remember them I have mapped them on to Software Testing, with a few additional notes.

Secrets to increased productivity revealed

I confess. I owned too many books on productivity - looking for a silver bullet to increased efficiency. I went through all my productivity books and threw out all those filled with platitudes and wibble wobble and ended up with 1 book. Getting Things Done. And now you can learn the secrets from Dave Allen’s […]

Get yourself a free computer science education

On Lambda the Ultimate I found a link to the ACM Classic Books Series. There are some great books here that I haven’t read since University. So a few of my choice favourites follow…