If you happen to find yourself needing to create a GUID for your brand new C# program, a Google search for “Create GUID” is the first reasonable thing you might do. Here’s my summary after doing the same…First off, in the “Truth in Advertising” department, the best link from the top 10 was “The Quick [...]

… test automation created by a siloed QA team working in isolation to reverse-engineer existing software and automate tests against an untestable UI using proprietary tools accessible only to a few select team members is guaranteed to be incredibly expensive both to create and to maintain, and also ridiculously fragile.

People still do that?! :-) No [...]

I know I read about this on reddit within the last week or so… But I just can’t find it! My Google-fu is failing me! Grrrrr.There was a general upload text area form where you copy in your code snippet. You then select the language from a drop down, and click submit. In the commentary [...]

I’ll be attending the Selenium Users Open Evening this Monday, February 25. The event will be at the Google campus in Mountain View, California. Most of the core Selenium development team will be in attendance, traveling from as far away as Tokyo and London. Here’s a blurb about it from the sign-up page :

With representatives [...]

“Exploratory programming is the fun end of programming, and we hope that will be the guiding principle of the Arc community.”(arclanguage.org)

Amen! (And when I do have to work with code on the JVM, it’s via Rhino or Jython.) I don’t know how much I’ll use Arc in the future, but I already like its [...]

[update: yeah, I’m lame. Jan 24 to Nov 9 is (rounding up) 10 months, not 11.]

Well, since last I posted… (~10 months!) I’ve been pretty busy. I started at Google eight months ago on March 5th, and so far it’s been great.

In April, I finally got to meet-up with several members of the core Selenium [...]

Well, I’ve had six wonderful years in the land of Thinking and Working (aka “The Martin Fowler Company“). Today, however, is my last day at ThoughtWorks. I’ll be packing up my home in Chicago and joining Google in Mountain View starting in February. My official title there will be “Software QA Engineer“, which is ironic, because no serious software tester goes [...]

With the almost daily announcement of new Python-based web frameworks, there needs to be a way to filter the contenders from the pretenders. I’ve been mulling over the idea of compiling a checklist for evaluating new frameworks. The checklist could also be used by new would-be Python framework creators as a gut check for the [...]