Not sure how many of you noticed the blog’s sidebar, if at all, but there is a bunch of cool stuff there! Seriously!
The king of cool is a rather useful link called Dev & QA Tools. It contains a nice list of the wonderful tools we use in Testuff for RnD and testing. I’m sure [...]
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Testing tools, Twittuff, and more sidebarring
Are you a software testing expert?
Just watched James Bach’s lecture on Becoming a Software Testing Expert and had a major blast. I love this guy’s ruthless honesty, geeky sense of humor, and the references he drops all over the place from philosophy, sci-fi, films, and whatnot. Hell, even if you don’t care about becoming a software testing expert, watch his [...]
Why developers shouldn’t test their own code
I f*#$ed up. I wrote a simple script to send post sale emails to our customers, letting them know we are here to help in case they have any questions or suggestions. The script was supposed to pull out registrants who registered over 2 weeks ago and to whom we have not sent such an [...]
Developers developers developers
Ran across this funny piece entitled The Top 20 replies by programmers when their programs don’t work. Sad but true:
20. “That’s weird…”
19. “It’s never done that before.”
18. “It worked yesterday.”
17. “How is that possible?”
16. “It must be a hardware problem.”
15. “What did you type in wrong to get it to crash?”
14. “There is something funky [...]
The Zen of Testing
As I was testing away our brand new shiny Testuff 0.9, I was wondering about the everlasting question in our profession, what makes a good tester? What qualities are needed for the acest QA of them all? Maybe arrogantly, what is it that makes me a good tester?
I don’t think this answer can be summed [...]
Hollywood, here they come!
Having seen the celebrity look alike webapp, I had some funny inspiration for testing. Let’s see how well it works and see if the celebrities look like themselves!
My Hollywood Twin, Johnny Depp, only looks like himself by 76%. That sucks for the algorithm developers. On the other hand, this guy has a hundred different faces [...]

