That's a scary challenge you've picked this year. Rooting for you.
08.01.2025 13:41
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That's a scary challenge you've picked this year. Rooting for you.
It takes me ages to write a post in my blog, but every now and then I do manage to complete one.
In this case, a book review.
TL;DR - go and read (listening to the audiobook works too)
always-fearful.blogspot.com/2024/05/book...
I know this is a marketing click-bait, but it still annoys me.
www.cigniti.com/blog/37-soft...
The underlying assumption is that if a bug manifests, then there wasn't good enough testing.
I believe even a testing vendor should be able to justify their work without promoting such misconceptions.
I understand that texts are a poor way to judge conference talk propositions, but there must be better ways to compensate for that.
In addition, it was an opening to all of my self criticism to flourish - My video presence is much worse than it is in front of an audience, and a short improvised pitch is different than a rehearsed talk with visual aids, so it's a bad indication of the talk's potential.
It's not that adding a video was technically challenging, but rather that it was one extra thing to do - after crafting a text and getting feedback on it, I now needed to find a quiet enough time to shoot an elevator pitch.
So, I've just finished submitting talks for @agiletdzone.bsky.social, and boy, was this the talk submission with the most friction I've done so far.
I'm not sure why submitting a video was mandatory (strongly recommended?) this year, but I sure hope it won't be next year.
So, lately I'm thinking about ways to track our features' test coverage. This has also led me to think about the concept of traceability and its prevalence in some areas of testing.
So I wrote about it a bit.
always-fearful.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-...
Say, people, is there a good way to collaborate on mind maps over time? Ideally something that can be checked into git or have some version control.
also, by the initial looks of it, C++ unit tests are just ugly
Microsoft may have found a way to beat google's search by embedding chatGPT into windows (dubbed "copilot in windows" or something like it).
Just asked it to help me choose a unit test framework for C++ (decided to play with it for the new AdventOfCode), and while overly verbose, it's helpful