January 2020 Content Summary

TLDR; January I spent some time exploring combinatorial techniques and Systems Modelling

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In January on Patreon I spent some time looking at combinatorial testing and created a few posts and videos for allpairs. I even created some code on github for experimenting with combinations of data. Also some lessons from Therapy, poetry (William Blake), and systems modelling.

And a few other useful resources popped up in tweets for Clean Code in JavaScript, the DevOpsPlayground trainings, code in multiple languages

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Twitter Stuff from January 2020

• A short video introduction from John Seddon about what “Best” practice can mean and how the phrase can be misused https://t.co/UAekvpTcPe -
• @santhoshst: Some ideas to start learning #JavaScript #JS -
• Content summary for December 2019 - quite long because I released a new micro course for Patreon supporters. -
• @JenMsft: Hi! My name’s Jen, and I keep a running collection of interesting Windows 10 keyboard shortcuts -
• @thomrinke: Last week I read https://t.co/vgbKNZEi4c (wonderful) and https://t.co/87E1pR0ENN (and saw the included fantastic video) by… -
• @addyosmani: Clean Code concepts for JavaScript: https://t.co/bRTM4lOReQ ~ a huge collection of patterns for writing readable, reusable,… -
• @wellavelino: Thanks @eviltester hahaha, the best example ever https://t.co/ptPsbiC0GZ -
• rosettacode.org https://t.co/zrikjDWvMt is a pretty good site showing solutions for a problem in different languages https://t.co/j6XUYUwOHA But it can be confusing for a beginner because the solutions are often different implementations than conversions.
• @eliasnogueira: This is the best course on @TestAutomationU so far! @eviltester rocks and show us another perspective to automate a web…
• @ali_hill91: If you’re interested in learning a new tool or technology you should check out our #DevOpsPlayground repo on GitHub https:/…
• @JavierFeliuA: I enjoyed this keynote by @eviltester at @JoyOfCoding 2019. He discusses lessons learned during his career. Conclusion:…
• @NeedForReview If I find a tool or library that uses AI, which augments my ability to automate something, in a way that is appropriate for the work that I’m doing, then I’ll use it. I don’t see AI replacing people. I can imagine AI supporting people automating things.

Blog Posts For January 2020

• December 2019 EvilTester.com and Patreon Content Summary

  • Content created and collated for EvilTester.com, Patreon and Social for December 2019

• Which programming language should I learn?

  • Programming languages are very similar so choose the one that you have most available support for the Getting Started stage.

Patreon Posts For January 2020

• Shared hallucination or best practice?

  • Belief change can prove hard.

• Visualisation vs Feature led to architecture changes

  • I wanted to approach the addition of extra outputs as a ‘visualisation’ rather than adding a new feature. This required re-architecting.

• Automated Script Generation (for videos)

  • A description of tactical tooling to create a tabular representation from a linear DSL. Tactical Tools can use Tests as their GUI.

• A free course on Domain Specific Languages

  • I use code based Domain Specific Languages when automating so it is good to have an online reference to help people learn.

• With diversification comes options

  • if we only have one approach, it won’t handle all situations, and something will cause us to fail heavily.

• Keeping ChromeDriver up to date with WebDriverManager

  • Chrome has a tendency to update frequently - most often without me being aware.

• Convert bare git repos to normal repos

  • I had to migrate repos from one git server to another.

• Some learning resources on TDD and Testing

  • A couple of free learning resources on TDD and Testing.

• Should / Could / Can / Will Dynamic

  • Exploring Should, Could, Can and Will.

• Two essential tools for consultancy

  • When I am on site, doing process improvement exercises I have two tools that I rely on.

• An early Test Script Hacks

  • Processes tended to be tool processes rather than contextual. I had to game the system.

• Content Summary for December 2019

  • Content Summary for December 2019

• December 2019 Collated PDFs

  • PDFs of the monthly summaries

• Demo of some AllPairs Strategies in code and notes on Unit Testing

  • A short (ish) video demonstrating the code in github repo for AllPairs generation.

• Relating ‘Changing Lives Through Redicision Therapy’

  • Relating ‘Changing Lives Through Re-decision Therapy’

• Two new Github repos

  • Two new github repos to mention today.

• Constrained Modelling

  • Adding constraints when modelling can help you explore the system from different perspectives. I mention some books, and some cautions.

• Optimising All Pairs Results and Evolutionary Algorithms

  • I hand optimised the output from AllPairs and Pict to try and identify some AllPairs optimisation strategies.

• When coding without TDD - keep code simple

  • TDD changes your coding style - even when I don’t use TDD, I use a TDD coding style when I’m concentrating well.

• Hands on PairWise Creation

  • I spent some time working through an All Pairs exercise to figure out how to create tables by hand.

• Back to Basics - Combinations

  • I want to spend more time this year, going back to basics.

• Create a System

  • Create a System

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