Month: April 2007

MAST lunch…

The first MAST lunch will be taking place on Tuesday, May 1st, 12.30pm. The venue will be Blue Train Cafe at Southbank (http://www.bluetrain.com.au). If you want to attend, but have not responded, please do so ASAP.

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What's in a name?

There seems to be a flurry of post-agile activity on blogs right now. If you haven’t noticed, you can look at an example here. There is more elsewhere, and Jonathan Kohl tells me there is more coming. What this amounts to is a growing number of people who, for a variety of reasons, have a […]

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MAST kickoff and tester lunch

After a hectic last year and some technical hitches, I’d like to finally take some action on getting a local software testing group off the ground in Melbourne. Things will kick off with a lunch on May 1st. Details can be found at http://www.quinert.com/. If you’ve emailed me previously or had joined the old forum, […]

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Sorry!

I thought I was done with ranting about automation tools for a while, but I couldn’t resist this quote from my former boss’ blog: “Tools that let programmers create software by manipulating icons and graphics shapes on screen have a long and sometimes successful history… But these have generally served as layers of shortcuts on […]

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More Joys of Vendorscript

Someone recently suggested to me that the selection of VBScript for an automation language is because it’s easier for testers. This is slightly rant-y, but I promise there are a few helpful tips in here just to make up for a mild dose of language-warring. Exhibit A. I can understand that there’s a chance that […]

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