Automating acceptance tests is a very worthy and lofty goal. Doing so gives a team and a business an ability to continuously ensure that a software application does what it is supposed to do. However, it can be rather challenging to implement, sometimes to the point that the challenges seem to outweigh the benefits. With the […]
Quality Matters
Unit tests take too much time to write and are not necessary. Automated test infrastructure is costly to create and maintain. We don’t need a complete approach to quality because it’s expensive. What’s that QA item in the quote? We’ll just have everyone run through it before we release. Tell that to this company, which […]
Glue and Microsoft
The Glue 2015 conference was held in Broomfield a few months back and showed a lot of what’s going on in the open-source (or at least non-Microsoft) development world. Between exhibitors, presenters and attendees, there was an impressive energy and a lot of good ideas on how to build better software. A big theme was […]
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