Technical Equity or Technical Debt: Stay Fit or Get Flabby
Technical debt refers to aspects of a codebase are incomplete, deficient, obsolete, or buggy. This can occur for many reasons: insufficient time, uncertainty, omissions, poor workmanship, or poor...
View ArticlePanel Discussion on Open Source Testing Tools
A few days ago, I participated in a panel discussion on open source tools for testing at the QUEST conference with the two founders of Selenium: Jason Huggins of Sauce Labs and Simon Stewart of Google....
View ArticleA Systematic Methodology for Testing Mobile Apps
I’ve developed a systematic methodology to design a mobile app test suite and offer an online course that teaches this methodology. http://www.udemy.com/how-to-test-mobile-apps/ The course assumes...
View ArticleThe Happy Path to Showstoppers
Every time I read about another high profile system outage, I wonder what was missed during development and testing. For example, although an unusual natural disaster triggered the recent Amazon cloud...
View ArticleWho Spun the Web?
Gordon Crovitz’s Wall Street Journal editorial “Who Really Invented the Internet?” (July 23, 2012) generated a lot of blowback owing to factual errors in his recounting of how certain network...
View ArticleAnother Day, Another $440 Million
News media are increasingly creative in finding sensation names for software bugs. "Rogue Algorithm" is the latest.
View ArticleHow to Ice the Testing BackBlob
How Agile development is being eaten by the Testing BackBlob and what to do about it
View ArticleCan defective software be safe or secure?
Let’s distinguish between systems where the hazards of failure are material (critical) and those that are not. If it bugs don’t matter, they don’t matter. As the question (posed in a LinkedIn forum)...
View ArticleCan UML Model Quality be Quantified?
A LinkedIn forum question resonated with a question that has long interested me. “The UML comprises 13 diagram types, the SysML comprises 9 diagram types. Each of these offers a different view of a...
View ArticleI ain’t gonna work on Markie’s farm no more
Deleting FaceBook About a week before deleting my FaceBook account, I posted the following on FaceBook. Since that post was deleted as a result, I’m re-posting it here. The title of this blog is a...
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