Month: November 2007

The essence of goal-driven design

I work with James, and he emailed this quote around the office – “UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.” (attributed to Doug Gwyn) I had forgotten about my response until I re-subscribed to his blog just now. “Unix needs an […]

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Passing and failing tests considered harmful

Alan Page of Microsoft suggests that there is a perfect world of passed and failed tests, and shades of grey that help us provide more useful information. He then asks “What else do you report as test results (to supplement test case pass/fail counts)? What do those results mean?” Read more at: http://blogs.msdn.com/alanpa/archive/2007/11/07/pass-fail-and-other.aspx I think […]

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Context-driven testing course in Melbourne, Sydney

If you’re looking for a course different to the usual fare, you might want to check out Rob Sabourin’s “Just in Time” testing course, which will be running in Sydney on the 12th and 13th of November, and in Melbourne on the 15th and 16th (New Zealand after that). I’ve heard good things about his […]

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