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What’s common for testing and FreeCell?
Submitted by Ainars Galvans on Fri, 17/10/2008 - 09:45. metrics | people issuesFirst: it seems easy, but it is hard to be good at it. Second: there is statistic kept supposed to measure your efficiency. Third you can’t (neither practically nor theoretically) win all games, just as you can’t find all the bugs. Last but not least to improve you need practice and a will to develop your skill.
On Monday I started writing this to talk about skills required to be good at FreeCell. While writing I kept discovering more and more analogies. I hope you will be as much exited as I was for how much I was able to learn about testing while thinking about FreeCell. For example I realized how statistics were blocking me from improving my skills in FreeCell. Now I understand how some testers are affected by the same issue.
On Monday I started writing this to talk about skills required to be good at FreeCell. While writing I kept discovering more and more analogies. I hope you will be as much exited as I was for how much I was able to learn about testing while thinking about FreeCell. For example I realized how statistics were blocking me from improving my skills in FreeCell. Now I understand how some testers are affected by the same issue.
Browser security a concern for website development
Submitted by Mike Kelly on Fri, 17/10/2008 - 14:35.Jennette Mullaney recently wrote an article on browser security. She was kind enough to give me a couple of soundbites.
The Five Why's and Testing Software
Submitted by SteveRowe on Fri, 17/10/2008 - 16:09.Toyota was able to eclipse the makers of American cars in part due to its production and development systems. The system has been popularized under the rubric of "Lean" techniques. Among the tenets of the Lean advocates is asking the "Five Why's." These are not the W's of journalism: Who, What, Why, Where, and When? They are not specific questions even. Asking five why's means asking why 5 times. Why was the production of cars down? Because there were missing screws. Why were there missing screws? Because the production robots were bumping them. Why were the robots bumping? Because the programming was faulty. Why was the programming faulty? Because the programmer didn't take into account a metric->English conversion. Why didn't the the programmer consider conversions? Because...
MSTest 2008 Reports for CruiseControl.NET
Submitted by Jonathan de Halleux on Fri, 17/10/2008 - 18:28.In this post, you’ll find the XSL stylesheets to render MSTest 2008 reports to CruiseControl.NET. CC.NET comes with stylesheets for MSTest 2005 but it seems that there were some changes in the xml output or at least they did not work for me. Please refer to the CC.NET documentation on how to integrate them into your build.
Two Ruby Books for Watir Testers
Submitted by bret on Fri, 17/10/2008 - 23:48.Many Watir users want to learn more Ruby so that they can build out their frameworks and libraries. When we created Watir, we knew that testers needed an easy-to-use full-featured language for their automation. Ruby allows most testers to quickly...