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Testing.com URLs no longer work

I’ve sold testing.com, partly because I got offered enough money, partly because exampler.com really reflects better what I do today, and partly because I like to force myself not to cling to the past. If marick@testing.com is in your address book, please change it to marick@exampler.com.All the content for testing.com has been transferred here. There [...]

Want Lasting Change? Focus On Culture & Values

Homeostatis is the nerdy term for the property of a system to maintain a state of equilibrium.

We exhibit this property when mechanisms in our body kick in to regulate body heat if it gets too hot or too cold.

Homeostatis is controlled by feedback - and that can be negative or positive feedback. Negative feedback works to bring the system back from perturbations by iteratively reducing the level of deviation/variation until it returns to normal.

A Star Studded CAST

It’s that time of year again for me – conferences. I love this time of year, because I think conferences can be very valuable. The tough part is deciding which ones to go to, since I can only take so much time away from my real work to indulge in my ongoing professional [...]

TotT: The Invisible Branch

Full statement coverage may be necessary for good testing coverage, but it isn't sufficient. Two places where statement coverage will be inadequate are branches and loops. In this episode, we'll look at branches, and specifically the differences between statement coverage and branch coverage.


Let's consider a case where branch coverage and statement coverage aren't the same. Suppose we test the following snippet. We can get complete statement coverage with a single test by using a berserk EvilOverLord: