Shrini Kulkarni reports on a conversation that he had with Rex Black. Shrini apparently offered a definition of testing, developed by James Bach, that we use in our Rapid Software Testing course: testing is questioning a product in order to evaluate it. Rex didn't agree with this definition. “Questioning a lifeless thing like software is bizarre. I cannot question my dog,” said Rex.

Someone did a nice job of using my tool (Pylot) for some webserver benchmarking:

"This article shows how response times improved after upgrading to a new dedicated web server with solid-state drives and faster processors."

http://www.websiteoptimization.com/spee

I just saw this newly posted "Salary Histogram" for Python programmers. It doesn't provide any context so make what you want of it :)

http://www.odinjobs.com/Odin/marketstatcompare?id=4812&q=python

A while ago I answered the following question on SearchSoftwareQuality.com’s Ask The Software Quality Expert: Questions & Answers.I like JUnit from what I hear. I do not know how to use it. Please kindly advise me how to use it.Here is a clip from my answer:Given that you asked specifically about JUnit, I would also [...]