Wikipedia’s article on equivalence class partitioning (ECP) is a great example of the poor thinking and teaching and writing that often passes for wisdom in the testing field. It’s narrow and misleading, serving to imply that testing is some little … Continue reading →
The Problem Early last month I was trying to update some gems on my MBP and ran into an SSL error: ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError) SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=SSLv3 read server certificate B: certificate verify failed (https://api.rubygems.org/specs.4.8.gz) In typical fashion I ignored the error and tried updating RubyGems (the package manager). That failed […]
This month’s Lean Coffee was hosted by Abcam. Here’s some brief, aggregated comments and questions on topics covered by the group I was in.Suggest techniques for identifying and managing risk on an integration project.Consider the risk …
I often hear how testing is part of life. I even use that, or related references, myself. Over the past few days I’ve been able to observe life and testing intersecting in a setting that is not part of my “everyday life”. This story starts at 12:30am, Saturday morning. My Wife wakes me up complaining … Continue reading Testing and Life Collide
In The Dots I referenced How To Make Sense of Any Mess by Abby Covert. It’s a book about information architecture for non-information architects, one lesson per page, each page easily digestible on its own, each page informed by the context on eit…
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