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The Reality of UI Test Automation
Michael Feathers explains how the reality of user interface test automation differs widely from the expectations: The Dream Janet comes into work in the morning and she sits down at her super-duper testing console. She presses a button and the … Continue reading
The Case For Better Management
Stephen Forte makes what he thinks is a case against having “rock-star” developers in a team. You can read the post, but, in short, there was a programmer “John” on his team who picked coding arguments with the rest of … Continue reading
Do The Basic Research
I fail to comprehend how someone can write this (emphasis mine): Overdesign is also very common with databases. People get hung up on rules like “third normal form”. Sometimes when you over-normalize a database is [sic] makes it impossible to … Continue reading
When is It Good Enough?
Anecdotes are dangerous. Scott Koon has one about fixing a doorknob, linking it to the now-infamous Spolksy duct-tape programmer post and writes: Think about that the next time you reject a new programming tool because you think it might take … Continue reading
Wrong Use of Testing Metrics
Brilliant post on testing by Michael Bolton (emphasis mine): Bug Investigation and Reporting (time spent on tests that find bugs)Test Design and Execution (time spent on tests that don’t find bugs) Module Time spent on tests that find bugs Time … Continue reading
Cross-Platform is Not That Important
Dave Nicolette asks about C# versus Java: Consider two hypothetical programming languages such that: Language A Supports closures, and Can only run on one platform, so that customers who use the language for mission-critical apps are locked into a single … Continue reading
Why Your Academic Record is Important
Jon Skeet has a long post on how programmers fall prey to pretty nasty bugs because they aren’t aware of the details of what they are doing. And he offers the following thoughts: First, try not to take on more … Continue reading
Code Readability
Rob Conery pointed out an interesting comment on his IoC post: In this simplified example above you switched from 3 lines of easily understandable code to something that requires code in the global.asax, another couple classes, and an interface. The … Continue reading
Do Bad Programmers Know About Technical Debt?
In short, no. But why am I asking the question in the first place? Well, much discussion in the technical blogs (such as the NOOP.NL Top 200) is centered around the idea about whether a mediocre programmer will land on … Continue reading
