Software Testing and Development Blog Posts

I was testing a system that created particularly long URLs that were hard to read because there were so many query parameters. I needed a way to fix that.

What is Software Testing?

Hard Question. But many people want easy answers. I do provide some easy answers but I encourage you to find your own answers.

Writing a Chrome Extension is pretty easy (getting it in the Chrome Store is much harder!). In this post I will take the snippet code I wrote to generate CounterStrings and convert it into a Chrome Extension.

During the investigation of a CounterString GitHub search issue, I noticed that the search button displayed for the form I was using did not trigger the search functionality when pressed. In this post I investigate that.

When we find a bug in a system we have to make sure we can isolate it and also reduce the risk that our approach caused the bug, rather than the system having a bug.

CounterStrings are an underused technique. Primarily because there are not a lot of tools that implement it. In this blog post I explain how you can use them from within your browser, and as a bonus, using them to find a bug in Github.

Over the years I’ve seen sites crash and burn so I’ve tried to archive content posted on other sites. This post collates answers to questions I answered on Quora.

I use a variety of screenshot tools in my work and for sharing the images, animated gifs, movies and pretty much any file, I use CloudApp.

Have you ever built a tool list?

Yes? Me too. I don’t any more. And in this show I explain why, and what I do instead.

I often talk about automating tactically and strategically. When we automate tactically we do what it takes to get the job done for us. When we automate strategically we build for the long term.

The same is true for programming tools. We can start small and tactical and scale strategically. In this example I create a Counterstring tool.