I'm currently enjoying a holiday at home.

Living in London, there are good points to this and there are bad points. The good point is that the amenities are pretty much unbeatable. Shops, bars, restaurants, cinemas, bowling alleys, parks, gyms, swimming pools, golf courses. You name it, London's got it in spades.

So I'll want for nothing while I'm enjoying this break.

I'm excited to be giving my first STAR West track presentation this October. My topic is "Fun With Regulated Testing", where I'll be talking about ways to do to better testing in regulated contexts.

I hope to see you there!

In a posting about unit testing a few months ago (Real unit tests, and bugs that go THWACK), I talked about Michael Feathers’ rules for unit tests, from page 12 in Working Effectively with Legacy Code. He also has a 2005 blog posting about it (A Set of Unit Testing Rules), where he added one [...]

Ward Cunningham says: I suspect there will be a tool at the center of the next advance in testing. The tool will enable the advance, but it won't be the advance. Like with jUnit, the tool will be useful before...

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