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Is it ok to have technical debt?

Technical debt and design debt are synonymous, neologistic metaphors referring to the eventual consequences of slapdash software architecture and hasty...

1 replies - 4265 views - 10/28/11 by Dror Helper in Articles

Video: "Super Fresh Code" - The Next Step in Continuous Delivery

Israel Gat of Cutter Consortium speaks with DZone on his two sessions at Agile 2011, one of which is about his new methodology for taking DevOps and Continuous...

0 replies - 5948 views - 10/25/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos

Getting started with Selenium 2

Selenium 2 features new Api and implementations which goes under the name of WebDriver. It's a simpler, faster, object-oriented Api that applies to modern web...

0 replies - 9277 views - 10/25/11 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Ops Needs their own TDD: Test -Driven Infrastructure

The recently published book "Test-Driven Infrastructure with Chef" is not a proscriptive book as far as tooling, despite having "Chef" in...

0 replies - 4715 views - 10/20/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Harmony is beauty - Developers and Testers

First and foremost, if you read my blog. I have to suggest that you go grab yourself a copy of Beautiful Testing. It's a great read, and has inspired this...

0 replies - 2230 views - 10/18/11 by Dawn Cannan in News

Has Static Analysis reached its limits?

HP’s acquisition of Fortify last year (which I am sure has made some people at Kleiner Perkins happy) has made me think some more about static analysis and...

2 replies - 7213 views - 10/05/11 by Jim Bird in News

What do you mean, don't submit bugs?

Of all of my "aha!" moments in transitioning from a waterfall-style QA person to an agile tester, the one I am about to talk about is...

20 replies - 9127 views - 09/29/11 by Dawn Cannan in News

Sad State of Secure Software Maintenance

This is sad. No, it's not sad, it's sick. I'm looking for ideas and clear thinking about secure software maintenance. But I can't find anything beyond a...

0 replies - 4961 views - 09/27/11 by Jim Bird in News

Let's not forget what makes a good tester a good tester

In the past year or so, I've spent more time than not trying to find really good "agile testers" to hire. In this search, I have also had many...

4 replies - 8156 views - 08/30/11 by Dawn Cannan in News

Your test cases should sometimes fail!

I'm an avid subscriber of the delightful weekly (sometimes) Python-URL! email, highlighting the past week's interesting discussions across the numerous...

1 replies - 8318 views - 08/18/11 by Michael Mccandless in News

Initial Test Points for Getting Your Environment Under Control

Starting a job with a running system and real users is a nice “problem” to have but it presents some unique challenges as well. Especially if server...

0 replies - 3003 views - 07/28/11 by Daniel Ackerson in News

Automated UI Testing - Part 1 - WatiN

A few months back I discovered a tool called WatiN. This is based on WatiR and is a web application testing tool for Dot Net developers. After doing a few...

3 replies - 5210 views - 07/26/11 by Paul Stack in News

5 Tips to Reduce Unit Test Defect Rates

Five quick points about unit tests that will reduce your defect rates. Always stop to add that simple unit test. You will be amazed how often this discovers a...

9 replies - 8025 views - 07/13/11 by Martin Harris in News

Developing and Testing in the Cloud

There’s a lot of hype around “the Cloud” and what it can do.One of the things that I am interested in is Cloud solutions that can help small software...

3 replies - 14374 views - 07/12/11 by Jim Bird in News

Zero Bug Tolerance Intolerance

It sounds good to say that you shall not and will not release code with bugs – that your team has “zero bug tolerance”. It makes for a nice sound...

4 replies - 9218 views - 07/11/11 by Jim Bird in News