Software Testing and Development Blog Posts

TLDR; Tips for external public bug bash testers. This is not testing as you know it. Change your beliefs. Get ready in advance. Hit the system hard, hit it fast. Report quickly and well. Demoralise the other teams. “Congraturation! You Sucsess!”

TLDR; Write your CV as benefits, and build a portfolio, to become more than just another CV on the pile and help the busy CV reader see the value that you can bring to their team.

TLDR; “Let’s code a Binary Chopifier” which I plan, code as prototype to plan in an @Test method, test interactively, experiment, and release as an @Test.

Notes on JavaScript hacking for the test cellular automata game.

A retrospective of an Exploratory Testing Session with detailed notes and critiques.

TLDR; There are a lot of amazing YouTube channels to learn from. If you’re not using subscriptions on YouTube with notifications or RSS then you are missing out.

TLDR; Question: Can selenium be used for real world testing? And does it take longer to create different scenarios/permutations than just testing the system manually? A: Yes, Probably

TLDR; Because we don’t see many videos showing exploratory testing in action, where people test, and explain why they are testing. I created an up to date video. I encourage you to critique the testing.

TLDR; As a simple rule, “I might not automate, if I have to create”. But I have done the opposite. I have automated when others would not. And I have waded in when others would have automated. To answer we need to question our situation and build a deeper model of our actual aims, options and capabilities.

TLDR; The instructions on apache and sonatype site are pretty good to help get library released to maven central. But you’ll need to learn about pgp signing and might need more rigour in your pom file. A fairly painless learning process that I recommend you go through and release something to the world.