Spent most of the day polishing up my JSON working on the Dashboard for our team. I am really excited and hope it will actually be used. Sad to realize it isn’t even mentioned in web development classes (1 or 2).….
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Working from Home
Had some problems with the car so couldn’t drive back to Utah this week. Working from home can be hard to get into the groove. I found out that working some hours in early morning before even my daughter wakes…
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My Birthday is Today
Today was my birthday so all I could think about is leaving early to get home to my family for the weekend. Feliz Aniversario!
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Source Control Tip
Before checking your code into SVN or Git always make sure it compiles and take not of the changes you made. This will make your life and the life of your co-workers so much easier.
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How to Develop for Mobile Devices
Most other blogs will tell you to develop a mobile site on top of your existing site. This would be the wrong way to do things. If your not designing your web applications to be mobile from the get go you…
Tours are Useful for Exploratory Testing
Do not run in circles in some unorganized testing spree. Instead create tours to make your exploratory software testing much more repeatable, useful, and concrete.
Test Regular Expressions for Evil Payloads/Patterns
Today I learned of an awesome tool called SDL Regex Fuzzer. It will test your regular expressions for evil patterns. Any regexps that fail are potentially vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks also known as ReDoS and should be rewritten.
Quality Assurance means Quality
There should be no reason for the quality assurance engineers to not be involved at every stage of the development cycle.
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I love MTM
At first I didn’t but using it for a while I have learned how useful it can be in managing your tests.
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Use the Force in Automation
What should I automate? How much should I automate? There is a point where too much automation leads to your tests breaking more than often and wasted time. Too little automation is not useful and also leads to wasted time.…
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