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If you are in Austin tonight....
Come out and see Bret, myself and some other local test experts as we discuss testing in Agile environments from 6-8:30pm this evening. http://agileaustin.org/ Read More...
Drop Your Ego, Lose Your Pride and Open Your Arms
John speaks of about collegiality . James gives a specific example . I really am happy to read/hear this. All to often ego and pride come into play which does not edify our profession. Working with Scott , I have seen this happen in the .Net community. Read More...
Live Writer: out of Beta and still not baked...
I previoulsy posted about spelling issues with Live Writer back when it was in Beta. Now that it's out of Beta, it still has issues that my colleague Kevin has pointed out. Read More...
Phone call with Jeff Patton on Story Estimation and Granularity.
The team was having some questions regarding the granularity and estimation of stories, so Bret set up a phone call with Jeff Patton a last week. Here are two takeaways from that call which have already proved invaluable. First, after each iteration, Read More...
Apple Humor for Mac Users
Regardless of political affiliation, this video is pretty funny. Read More...
MACro Thinking
As I previously mentioned , my next computer was going to be a Mac. So, lat night, I went out and bought myself a MacBook Pro . Never had an Apple before, but I really liked what I read and had heard about them. My old laptop, which my wife primarily Read More...
Live Writer speling kneads impruvment
I use Live Writer when creating my posts. For the most part, it works OK for me, but the spell-check is awful. The dictionary is nowhere near what Word and Outlook are. Why can't the Live Writer team use the same dictionary as the Word and Outlook teams? Read More...
Are We Bound by a Code of Ethics?
My last post got me thinking about ethics within our industry. Our profession does not have an absolute code of ethics , but should there be one? Policemen, doctors, psychologists, are just a few of professions that are bound by a code which they live Read More...
Should Customers be Penali$ed for Bugs in Applications?
Since Dovetail Software develops and supports Enterprise CRM Application particularly within Customer Service and Support , I thought I would share an interesting happening to me recently that has a software testing twist thrown in the mix. The other Read More...
New Twist in Agile: Parallel Programming
The other day, Bret and I started working on a card that broke down into numerous, smaller tasks. We began refactoring our procedural code to be Object Oriented along with adding better validations. We paired throughout the day, while working on one of Read More...
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