Updated haiku
March 16, 2015
I’m surprised at how relevant it all still is, but I have added something that I think is missing that I’ve learned in my last couple of roles. See my ‘Essence of Agile’ Haiku for the update.
Some thoughts on iteration vs incrementation
February 4, 2015
Alister Scott‘s post on Incrementation vs Iteration was doing the rounds at work with some comments, and I felt the need to comment. I had a couple of attempts at responding to this. It’s a big topic, but to some degree I think iterative vs incremental is a bit of a distraction as a general […]
More Ruby goodness for testing
July 10, 2014
Did I mention how much I love Ruby? items = (“A”..”Z”).to_a.in_groups(5,false) 5.times do | i | puts items[i].flatten.to_s puts “—-” end Source code is at http://apidock.com/rails/Array/in_groups
Yet another reason why testers should use Ruby
June 23, 2014
Instant sequence of New South Wales licence plates: start_lpn=”AA00AA” end_lpn=”ZZ99ZZ” return start_lpn.upto(end_lpn).collect { | lpn | lpn }
Cem Kaner interview on uTest blog
February 6, 2014
Cem Kaner’s interview on the uTest blog talks mostly about his new book, but was especially interesting when it got to the part about emerging trends. <Scientific> communities are sometimes characterized as moving between two dysfunctional extremes, with stagnation at one end and fragmentation at the other. In the stagnant extreme, everyone pretends to believe […]
Jonathan Kohl back down under with testing and user experience training
December 11, 2013
Jonathan Kohl is going to be back in Australia and New Zealand in February with his mobile testing course, as well as with a new course on mobile application user experience. Courses are being run through SoftEd in Auckland, Wellington, Melbourne and Sydney, so check it out!
I’m hiring
February 15, 2013
I currently have a vacancy in my team for an assistant test lead to carry some of the low-level planning, bug and environment management load. They would also be hands-on. See Transurban’s career site for details or contact me if you have questions.
A reminder on what not do when you’re automating testing
October 12, 2012
Five years ago I wrote, somewhat flippantly, on automation failure, but apparently some people never noticed. It still seems relevant, so please go and read (or re-read) ‘Automate your way to ineffective testing with my twelve step program…‘
Problems with CA Workload Automation
April 3, 2012
On the off chance it helps someone else, when firing up CA Workload Automation for the first time, it failed to start with the message ‘JVM terminated, error code=-1’. There was no obvious cause for this, the install was a fresh one on a newly set up machine. I reinstalled the JDK, and still […]
Yodle are looking for a tester
October 20, 2011
This came out of the blue, and I don’t know much about them, but someone from Yodle.com asked me if I would spread the word about their open tester position (New York-based). On paper, it looks pretty interesting, and my readership is mostly US-based, so hopefully this might help someone out: http://www.yodle.com/yodle-careers/jobs/new-york/qa-engineer/