This past weekend, over 400 developers, testers and others involved in software development got together on the campus of SPSU at the Atlanta Code Camp for a day of training and networking. Code Camps are community events, volunteer-organized and staffed, with sessions presented for free by local (or not-quite-local) individuals. This was my third year […]
Category: Software Development and Testing
The First Three Months
Since starting my new job, I’ve often been asked how I like it and what I’m doing. The short answer is that I’m really enjoying it and that this is the greatest company I’ve ever worked for. I’m busy meeting people, talking and writing about testing, and learning more new things each week than I […]
Specification By Example (ATDD at AQAA and ATLScrum)
Note: Andrew presented this workshop a second time last night. As with any presentation or workshop, it has evolved slightly over time. I’m incorporating my additional notes into this post. -Sjv 23-May-2013 Over the past week or so, Andrew Fuqua (@andrewmfuqua) has given workshops on Acceptance Test Driven Development for both the Atlanta Quality Assurance […]
Book Recommendations by a Dozen
I was fortunate to spend two days last week with some very smart people as my company hosted a completely non-company-specific, non-tool-specific, non-technology-speicfic peer conference; twelve people in a room discussing the craft and profession of software testing, what changes we see happening and would like to see, and how we might be able to […]
Why not sleep?
In my last post, about test automation, I wrote about using sleep : “Bad, bad, bad. Don’t do this.” But why not? Well, the way I was doing it there — until d.exists? — really wasn’t that horrible. What you really want to stay away from, and what I’ve seen people start out with, is […]
Web Automation, A First Start
written a while back, not posted until today; this was about a year or so ago My software testing (QA) team has grown over the years, often at a frantic pace. Like many others, I’m sure, there’s always been more work to do than time to do it in, and so saw sharpening has never […]
Moored Once More
Forms have been completed. anchors are down, and the next phase of my career has begun. This week, I signed aboard my new post as part of telerik’s software testing tools group. The department I’m joining is in Austin Texas. No, we’re not moving. I’ll be working out of my home office (and Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson […]
TDD is a Habit
Up-front admission: I am not “a software developer.” I dabble in software development. I work with software developers; I test and support their code and, though I write some code (and some of that has even shipped to customers as part of various products) I am not “officially” a developer. I don’t even play one […]
Intro/Refresher Resources for SQL
I was asked to find a few references for our people here; folks who are new to SQL or just haven’t used it in a while. Rather than have my notes tied up in email, I figured I’d put them here for all to use. We use both Oracle Database (10g now, 11g soon) and […]
Don’t Just Say…
Advice for my software testers, though it applies in many other parts of life as well: Don’t just say “this doesn’t work.” Use something like “This is what I did, this is what I expected, this is what I saw instead, here are the things I’ve tried, and this is what I think is wrong.” […]