Those of us who are fascinated by our propensity to delude ourselves that we can predict or control complex phenomena like stock markets and software projects might find this post on the Freakonomics site amusing.

An anniversary I missed was this blog's 3rd birthday on April 10th.



A big thank you to all my loyal readers. All 9 of you.

Cheers!

I always find it hard to effectively communicate what TDD actually is. I think you have to see it, and then do it, to really get your head around the practice.

So I've finally gotten around to posting a dynamic worked example so you can see the process I go through, and see the kind of end result you might get.

It was my first week in Bangalore, and I was still adjusting to the time difference. I was actually a little proud that I was functional and awake given that it was something like 1AM my time.“Want some coffee?” my host asked.“No thanks, I’m fully caffeinated for now.” I replied.“Even if you don’t want [...]

Sipp is a performance testing tool for the SIP protocol. An impressive list of contributors have enriched SIPp with new features, another step towards making a more complete SIP benchmark tool. A lot of new enhancements and bug fixes have been added since 3.0.

“What testing books should I read?” such a hard question to answer in a land where a testing book that has value at one point in your career ceases to have value later on.I do have some books that I recommend to testers, entirely ignoring their context - ha… see… Eeeevil… So… 5 books, [...]

Rasta is a data-driven testing framework that pulls data out of Excel spreadsheets and executes it using simple "fixtures" that you write in Ruby. Your fixture methods could use Watir or another Ruby-based library (Selenium-RC, Mechanize, Soap4R) to execute against...