Category Archives: Testing

What If I do This?

When I started my career as a developer, there were testers on my team. That was a new concept for me, since before that I didn’t need any testing, because I didn’t have any bugs. I learned to work with them, although they were a kind of an annoyance, since, suddenly, They discovered I had

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Test Pain

Writing end-to-end automated tests. They are important, but I don’t like to write them. Just thinking about setting up a system all ready for testing just a single test case, then cleaning up after it. Trying to think about all the things that can go wrong and can stop the build, because some environmental god

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The Invisible Time Sink

I’ve recently watched a session called “Chasing the golden GOOS”. From the cunning name, you probably get that it’s about developing an app using the “Growing Object Oriented Systems Guided by Tests” approach. The whole thing was interesting, and then there was a question in the end. Someone in the audience asked about the ratio

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The Real Enemy

Lior Friedman asked whether a tester should know how to program or become obsolete. Lanette Creamer said the same fate awaits programmers who can’t test. This kind of discussion only happens in the dark corner of the software world. Within our small community. In most companies, nobody thinks about this. Human Resources “When we hire

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