Five for Friday – February 26, 2021

Another week whirled by – here’s some stuff I found worth sharing. I polished off another fiction book last week – this time it was Dark Matter by Blake Crouch. It’s a quick and fun read – not 5-stars good, but definitely interesting enough to recommend. Someone on the ABTesting slack pointed me to rephonic.com,…

When the days all blur together, is it really Friday. Maybe I should do three for Thursday instead? For now, I’ll keep it as is 🙂 I just updated to the latest version of Ubuntu (20.04 “Focal Fossa”). Like previous versions, it’s pretty damn good. My manager posted on the Unity blog today about working…

In a recent talk on test design (link), I discussed the concept of "useful tests". In my definition, useful tests are tests that provide new information. Almost every test is useful…once – typically the first time it’s run where it shows that the underlying functionality is working. From that point on, many tests function primarily…

As you may have noticed, I’ve had to take a bit of a break from blogging. I’ve kicked out at least a post or two a week for a few years now, but I’m not dry on ideas, and I definitely want to follow up on my recent Test This post (before a follow up…

Once again, here’s a random sampling of the internet I found interesting this week. Not something a lot of people will like, but I agree with the authors here – we need another lockdown. Google wrote a nice blog on code coverage Kubecon Europe is starting on August 17th. Of course it’s virtual (although not…

In my role on Teams, I was “in charge” of quality – which eventually turned into everything from the moment code was checked in until it was deployed to our end-users. At one point during development, we had a fully usable product with no known blocking issues. We were missing key features, performance was slow…