Five for Friday – March 12, 2021

I’ve had a few conversations on twitter over the past few weeks about tester titles. My conclusion is that test titles are meaningless, but let’s look at why I think that, and why it doesn’t matter. Let’s say you’ve been testing for eight years, given a conference presentation or two and wrote a bit about…

Yesterday, I read a mail sent to an email alias I’m on, where the author was asking why tool X wasn’t enabled on his latest build. The mail looked something like this (genericized to protect the innocent). foo.service doesn’t appear to be working Repro: I installed the build from <build_path> I verified the binaries existed…

I’m just back from a trip off the grid, so probably missed a lot – but here are a few things I think are worth knowing about. Short and sweet this week – have a great weekend.

My team at Microsoft is starting to use code coverage a little more diligently. Code coverage has been used for some time on the team, but we’re just now getting to a common approach and recording mechanism. There are a few things about our approach that are a bit different than I’ve seen most other…

There’s been s lot reported lately on the Equifax security breach. Equifax failed to apply a security patch for Apache Struts in a timely manner, and attackers took advantage of this to get at a whole lot of customer data. What we don’t know at this time is whether this was a fluke due to a…

It’s another week, and I found five more things you may enjoy. Practitest posted their top testing podcasts this week. And yes, your favorite podcast was included. Also – a great article from Coursera on how they improve developer productivity As someone 30 or so years in tech without a comp sci degree, this article…