Searching. I’m currently testing a product that has a search feature. I’ve tested search functionality before but not a multilingual search engine that utilizes two different search engines based on the language selected. Nor have I previously worked with a search engine that uses stemming and stop words.

I almost didn’t want to write about this – figured I would wait until I resolved my challenges before writing about it – but it occurred to me why? It’s not as though in software testing I haven’t learned that first understanding the complexities of a problem is an essential starting point.

Pete Dignan and I are founding a company called WatirCraft. WatirCraft is a for-profit company that is supporting and maintaining Watir and providing additional products and services based on Watir. We are betting that we can build a business...

I’ve been beating my head against the technical debt metaphor a bit these days. Here’s one thing that oozed out.Preface: I’m assuming there are two kinds of debt. One is frivolous debt; the other is debt-as-investment. When debt is an investment, you have a reasonable expectation that a bulk sum of money now will allow [...]