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Sorry About the Digital Rights Nonsense
Submitted by James Bach on Thu, 23/07/2009 - 04:02.When my publisher decided to release my Secrets book for “free” as an ebook, I thought it meant FREE. I just found it meant free-for-a-little-while-and-then-gone. Apparently it has some sort of DRM expiration date on it.[Update: One of my tester friends found that he could defeat the expiration mechanism by playing with the system date, [...]
My thoughts on the Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar
Submitted by Danny Faught on Thu, 23/07/2009 - 06:36.I’ve just read James Bach’s new book, Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar: How Self-Education and the Pursuit of Passion Can Lead to a Lifetime of Success. It’s available now as an e-book, and will be released in September 2009 in hardcover. It’s easy to digest at 141 pages long, but it still gives us a lot [...]
The Plague of Homelessness
Submitted by noreply@blogger.com (James Whittaker) on Thu, 23/07/2009 - 18:46.By James A. Whittaker
There are two communities who regularly find bugs, the testers who are paid to find them and the users who stumble upon them quite by accident. Clearly the users aren’t doing so on purpose, but through the normal course of using the software to get work (or entertainment, socializing and so forth) done failures do occur. Often it is the magic combination of an application interacting with real user data on a real user’s computing environment that causes software to fail. Isn’t it obvious then that testers should endeavor to create such data and environmental conditions in the test lab in order to find these bugs before the software ships?
My Entry In Software Craftsmanship Wandering Book Thingummyjig
Submitted by jason@parlezuml.com (Jason Gorman) on Thu, 23/07/2009 - 19:01.I've just uploaded my entry in The Wandering Book: Zeitgeist Of The Software Craftsmanship Movement.
My terrible scrawl might not be readable to everyone, so here it is in proper computer writing:
Software Craftsmanship is not about masters and apprentices. It is not about manifestos, and it is not about guilds or other closed shops.
My terrible scrawl might not be readable to everyone, so here it is in proper computer writing:
Software Craftsmanship is not about masters and apprentices. It is not about manifestos, and it is not about guilds or other closed shops.
Empirix / Oracle Application Testing Suite
Submitted by Alexander Podelko on Thu, 23/07/2009 - 20:39. performance testing | performance testing toolsI was asked several times about the fate of the Empirix load testing tool Oracle acquired earlier (it was not the whole Empirix company: the company still exist selling other tools / services; Oracle acquired Web application testing software assets from Empirix).
It is now Oracle Application Testing Suite, a part of Oracle Enterprise Manager's suite of Application Quality Management products, and can be downloaded from there (subject to Oracle Technology Network Developer License Terms). The name of the load testing tool is Oracle Load Testing for Web Applications.
It is now Oracle Application Testing Suite, a part of Oracle Enterprise Manager's suite of Application Quality Management products, and can be downloaded from there (subject to Oracle Technology Network Developer License Terms). The name of the load testing tool is Oracle Load Testing for Web Applications.