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And you need my DOB, why?
The tedious repetitive nightmare of constantly adding the same profile details to every poxy web service that comes along. Yet another skills site, another reviews site – all expecting you to...
View ArticleExploratory testing my patience
Exploratory testing has been in the middle of what I call a “no, no, listen to me” circus. People saying virtually the same things, then dissecting the semantics to death. Exploratory testing is what...
View ArticleDon’t disappear in your own life
We get so comfortable with our life that we don’t venture out – so we disappear. Has testing world disappeared up it’s own behind? The predictable anti-climax after the last couple of years fever-pitch...
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Freelance WordPress development
There are many cheap solutions to getting a website up and running. So why bother investing a little more time effort and money into a professionally designed WordPress website? Well, it’s all about...
View ArticleNathan-spotting
Take a walk round Shoreditch and Old Street in the daytime, and see the increase in Nathan Barleys. Check out some of the impossibly fashionable cafe’s and coffee shops and yawn, as you feel you are...
View ArticleChange always costs money
With Waterfall step-down process, a lot relied on skilled people – skilled analysts to interrogate clients for requirements, skilled project managers to keep project on track, skilled developers to...
View Articlebusy at doing nothing …
I am so busy doing nothing… that the idea of doing anything — which as you know, always leads to something — cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything. Jerry Seinfeld
View ArticleEnd-users as security testers
Increasingly security testing of web applications are left to the end-user to discover. The web is generally seen as an imperfect thing, so it is not surprising that most users do not expect a website...
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Why have information in one place, when it can be duplicated a 10000 times in many places? The web demonstrates very effectively how easily information can become corrupted by indirect communication....
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Testing is boring? By same token, development is – testing is just missing the right over-excitable words and phrases, that wouldn’t drop like a stone, if you shouted them in a pub.
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If only HR was using Big Data intelligently
Much has been written in recent months about the potential for HR and Big Data (here) to transform the way HR can influence a business ….
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And you need my DOB, why?
The tedious repetitive nightmare of constantly adding the same profile details to every poxy web service that comes along. Yet another skills site, another reviews site – all expecting you to...
View ArticleIt’s not like the good old QA days …
I am starting to think those of us who grumble about misuse of term “QA” (Quality Assurance) are maybe in the realms of grumpy old men/women. I now beginning to realise that yes, people use the term...
View ArticleInspired by Behat
Pride comes before a fall – A person who is extremely proud of his or her abilities will often suffer a setback or failure, because he or she tends to be overconfident and to make errors of judgment....
View ArticleAgile traps
The easiest Agile trap to fall in, is tools driving process – I still sail close to that one
View ArticleIterative and Incremental Development
Although evolutionary, iterative and incremental development (IID) in software is in the ascendance as the modern or agile approach to replace ad hoc or waterfall (sequential lifecycle) development,...
View ArticleTransfer entire directory via SSH (Linux)
Transfer entire directory via SSH (Linux) scp -r login@server:/remote/directory/ /local/directory/
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BDD & Continuous Integration
BDD demands a lot of attention, and is definitely not for the faint-hearted. Be prepared to have all your flaws exposed, and sometimes in ruthless succession. It is why I think more and more than...
View ArticleAvoiding too many user stories
…… 600 user stories in an application development backlog. All those user stories showed the team’s extensive due-diligence work in a complex project that involved a platform change. Unfortunately,...
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