Which testing muppet are you?
May 28, 2010
According to the dev team, this is the muppet representation of me as a tester – But as well as straying into Sam’s stern, righteous, “everything’s wrong” attitude on (rare, I hope,) occasions, I think aspects of my testing persona could just as well be represented by some different muppet outlooks: Animal – The performance […]
Comparing files and alternatives(?) to Diff
Continuing the ‘what tool’ theme from last week, today’s topic is ‘Diff’. I frequently install windows versions of various Unix command line utilities via the Gnu Utilities for Win32 project. Diff is particularly handy not just for the programming side of automation, but also for comparing output files from automation as well as database queries. Occasionally […]
Repost of server-move casualties – Ruby progress bar and JMeter troubles
May 25, 2010
I had a nagging feeling that I was missing a couple of posts after my wordpress death and subsequent server move. Last night I’d flushed that thought from my mind, but today I found out what they were, and thanks to Google’s cache, they’re back up again. The first was a piece on implementing a […]
Dr Dobbs Interview
May 21, 2010
The topic of interviews came up while chatting with a friend recently, and I noticed that the Dr Dobb’s interview I did a couple of years back is no longer available. I’m reposting it now to have my own copy and to save me from having to dig it out of the Internet Archive in […]
Even more agile Haiku
May 20, 2010
I’ve added a couple more agile haiku. The essence seems to be getting a bit less essential, so I think at some point a refactoring is going to be in order.
Building regular expressions
May 19, 2010
When my testing gets technical, there are a lot of things that I only have to grapple with infrequently. Regular expressions are one of those in-again, out-again things for which my expertise varies depending on when you ask me. Today’s Ruby hacking saw me find RegExr which helps you build and test regular expressions, as […]
Watching/tailing multiple log files at the same time with Ruby’s NET::SSH library
A good testing habit when working with web apps is to monitor the log files of servers as you test. In some cases this is easy, especially where there’s a single application server. With the trend toward more service-oriented architectures, and server clusters for high-traffic applications, the environments I’m working in tend to have many […]
I’m in the top 100 testing blogs, apparently
May 17, 2010
Given the lack of posts over the last 12 months and the various problems with my hosting, I’m surprised I scraped in. But it’s nice to know anyway – http://www.testingminded.com/2010/04/top-100-software-testing-blogs.html Thanks to all of you who’ve been following along for the last few years.
More Haiku
February 22, 2010
I’ve updated my ‘Essence of agile’ haiku page with a couple of new ones. I think I’m counting one of them as post-agile. I expect there will be more as I work through my own post-agile principles.
Celerity update
I’ve just updated my celerity gem and it seems to fix all of the warnings that were flooding my scripts before. Performance is still a touch disappointing with our website, but the changes make it much more usable (and there’s an option to turn javascript off now according to the docs at http://rubyforge.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=34490).