Software Testing and Development Blog Posts

TLDR; JUnit is an execution framework. The principles of TDD are about writing code, seeing it fail, writing code to make it pass, seeing it pass and making it better. All applies when writing automated execution code for Testing

TLDR; Do you test with individuality? Do you release work that reveals and harnesses your creativity? You can. Take heart from people like Stafford Beer, Charles Dodgson, Buckminster Fuller, William Blake and more. “I will not Reason & Compare: my business is to Create”

TLDR; People seem to be nervous about releasing code to Github in case it isn’t good enough, or it reflects badly on them. I release code that I created that I found useful. Over time it leaves a trail of code that builds into a portfolio. If I judged it, I would leave no trail. Release. Build a portfolio.

Sometimes we ask for something, without really understanding what that means. Asking for collaboration opens more options.

Updated 2023/07/30 to include talk recording

Open Quality Conference 2020

The Open Quality Conference was an online conference based around Open Sourced Tooling.

The videos were pre-recorded with some live sessions during the day.

This recording was released free to Patreon supporters in 2020 And can be found on Patreon and as part of the Patreon Exclusive “Get Your Message Out - blogging” course

Official Blurb

In this talk we will provide examples of using Github, Netlify, Hugo, Heroku, GitPages, Gist and a host of other sites and tools to share your knowledge, and expand your skillset and experience as you do so. You don’t have to share code to take advantage of the open source hosting. You don’t need to be able to code to do this.

TLDR: Code Coverage can help with code review when we focus the coverage metrics on the code we want to review and format it to support coverage metric analysis.

In this podcast I discuss a UK government guidance document on exploratory testing.

TLDR; Release of my open source API Workshops.

I was asked how I might go about automating an online calculator application. I have a calculator app of my own so I was interested in comparing the two apps and experimenting with a canvas based JS App.

In this podcast I discuss How to recruit testers: the job spec, and the audition process.