• Deveroom goes Open Source

  We launched Deveroom two month ago. It is time now to stop for a moment and have a look at where we are now and what the next steps for the product will be. We have great news to share. The post Deveroom goes Open Source appeared first on Gáspár Nagy on software.

  24.04.2019 | 5:55 קרא עוד...

• Test automation is not a project, it’s a process

  I have just read Stėphane Colson article about good practices when beginning with test automation. He says:Automation is a real new project and should be treated as such.I disagree. Test automation cannot be set as a brand new project, with its own team, goals and schedule. In the same way that peer review and pair testing are good practices to improve the quality of the code and the feature, automated tests are a way to make sure that, when you change something in your code, you haven’t break anything around. If tests are well designed, the feedback is fast and the team can go forward with confidence. This is only my opinion and related to my humble experience. As an example, I will begin with a short story.In one of my first testing experience, as a QA engineer, I was asked to write unit tests for the code already written by other developers — for respect of the company, I will not tell its name. I was supposed to add coverage and to find bugs, but not to change the current code. Yes, my job was to write unit tests all day long and separated from the developers — luckily, i was allowed to ask questions about the code but not too often and only to the lead dev. After three months, the CTO saw that I was not adding enough value and we stopped the experiment — and I moved to another company. I think they continued to write code without tests after that.Seems strange isn’t it? Everybody knows[…]

  24.04.2019 | 5:02 קרא עוד...

• “Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less” (Greg McKeown)

  After seeing several recommendations for the book Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, I borrowed a copy from the Melbourne Library Service recently – and then read the book from cover-to-cover over only a couple of sittings. This is a sign of how much I enjoyed reading it and the messages in the book resonated strongly with me, on both a personal and professional level. The parallels between what Greg McKeown writes about here and the Agile movement in software development are also (perhaps surprisingly) strong and this helped make the book even more contextually significant for me. The fundamental idea here is “Less but better.” The way of the Essentialist is the relentless pursuit of less but better… Essentialism is not about how to get more things done; it’s about how to get the right things done. It doesn’t mean just doing less for the sake of less either. It is about making the wisest possible investment of your time and energy in order to operate at your highest point of contribution by doing only what is essential. Greg argues that we have forgotten our ability to choose and feel compelled to “do it all” and say yes to everything: The ability to choose cannot be taken away or even given away – it can only be forgotten… When we forget our ability to choose, we learn to be helpless. Drip by drip we allow our power to be taken away until we end up becoming a function of other[…]

  24.04.2019 | 3:17 קרא עוד...

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