Sat Oct 08 12:28:34 GMT 2011 From /weblog/software_engineering

scrum

Experience of adopting scrum - http://www.ericsink.com/entries/agile_2011_paper.html

Comparison of XP and Scrum - http://jamesshore.com/Blog/Should-We-Adopt-Scrum-or-XP.html


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Mon Oct 03 16:22:03 GMT 2011 From /weblog/software_engineering/testing

performance

By far the biggest reason I have seen for the performance discrepancy above is not due to a faulty test but due to the stress test being executed on wildly different data sets than what is in production. - http://saasinterrupted.com[..]on-flaw-in-software-performance-testing/

http://www.jayphilips.com[..]0-open-source-performance-testing-tools/

Discuss about performance management, a process to monitor and control performance details - http://blog.dynatrace.com[..]1/09/15/why-do-you-do-apm-in-production/

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Mon Aug 15 15:43:17 GMT 2011 From /weblog/software_engineering

done

What is done? http://idiacomputing.com/moin/DoneDone

The goal is perfection; the target is improvement - http://jchyip.blogspot.com[..]011/08/goal-is-perfection-target-is.html

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Thu Jun 30 16:36:22 GMT 2011 From /weblog/software_engineering/team

fail

How to face failure? http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/06/learning-from-failures

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Mon Jun 27 16:43:20 GMT 2011 From /weblog/software_engineering

relibaility

First, stop writing lousy code
Design for failure
Keep it Simple
Test… test… test….
Get in the trenches with ops
Change is bad…. but change is good
Safety First

http://www.javacodegeeks.com[..]/06/lessons-in-software-reliability.html

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Mon Jun 20 16:16:16 GMT 2011 From /weblog/software_engineering/testing

Release Checklist

Various discussion about the checklist: http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.111480 . But I think practice CI is more important: http://www.martinfowler.com/articles/continuousIntegration.html

Joey discuss on beta testing... I feel he requirement is too high for small team - http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/BetaTest.html

More discussion - http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/12/agile-checklists and a checklist for SCRUM http://www.infoq.com/minibooks/scrum-checklists

Integraton test concern - http://www.makinggoodsoftware.com[..]integration-points-4-main-considerations

http://blog.anandvishwanath.in[..]h.in/2011/06/release-plan-checklist.html

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Fri May 13 17:15:13 GMT 2011 From /weblog/software_engineering/team

Issues

Suggestion of how to due with deny - http://raminasser.com[..]to-do-when-projects-are-behind-schedule/

Common patterns of various issues and the recommended solution - http://www.aptprocess.com/whitepapers/risk/RiskToPatternTable.htm

Blame base management - http://digerati-illuminatus.blogspot.com[..]/poor-requirements-poor-coding-poor.html

Discipline always not focus at the issue, instead it often bring more other problems - http://blog.objectmentor.com[..]en-directed-at-the-symptom-not-the-cause

Common anti-pattern of forming a good team, and the corresponding solution - http://www.infoq.com/articles/whole-team

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Wed Apr 27 16:36:26 GMT 2011 From /weblog/software_engineering/testing

refactoring unit test

Idea of how to refactoring test cases, summary :

Refactor production code with the tests passing. This helps you determine that the production code still does what it is meant to.
Refactor test code with the tests failing. This helps you determine that the test code still does what it is meant to.

http://googletesting.blogspot.com[..]07/04/tott-refactoring-tests-in-red.html

Collections of idea of testing private methods - http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/01/private-methods-tdd-design , may be it is a signal of refactoring?

The other way of testing private , via compare with difference implementation - http://manversusvirtualmachine.blogspot.com[..]1/unit-testing-private-methods-like.html

Explain the problem of non-Determinism in testing, common reason of why tests becoming non-Deterministic, and common solution - http://martinfowler.com/articles/nonDeterminism.html

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Sun Feb 13 17:57:58 GMT 2011 From /weblog/software_engineering

classification

Strategic application and utility service - http://continuousdelivery.com[..]m/2011/01/strategic-vs-utility-services/

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Wed Jan 19 16:52:37 GMT 2011 From /weblog/software_engineering

ship

How facebook ship code - http://framethink.wordpress.com[..].com/2011/01/17/how-facebook-ships-code/

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Sun Jan 16 16:44:41 GMT 2011 From /weblog/software_engineering/project

A Tale of Two Terminals

1. Cutover to any new system should be in small increments. Impossible? Don’t give up on increments too quickly – and don’t leave this to “customers” to decide! The technical risk of a big-bang cut-over is immense. And it’s almost always easier to divide the system in some way to facilitate incremental deployment than it is to deal with the virtually guaranteed chaos of a big-bang cutover.

2. Simplify before you automate. Never automate a work process until the work teams have devised as simple a work process as they possibly can. Automating the right thing is at least as important as automating it right.

3. Do not freeze work design into code! Leave as much work design as possible for work teams to determine and modify. If that is not possible, make sure that the people who will live with the new system are involved in the design of their work.

4. Rehearse! Don’t just test the technical part, include the people who will use the new system in end-to-end rehearsals. Be prepared to adapt the technical system to the social system and to refine the social system as well. Be sure everyone knows what to do; be sure that the new work design makes sense. Leave time to adjust and adapt. Don’t cut this part short.

5. Organize to manage complexity. Structure work around work teams that can adapt to changing situations, especially if the environment is complex, could change rapidly, or is mission critical. At minimum, have emergency response teams on hand when the new system goes live.

http://www.leanessays.com/2011/01/tale-of-two-terminals.html

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Wed Jan 12 14:27:11 GMT 2011 From /weblog/software_engineering/testing

reference

A lot of links - http://www.staqs.com/software_testing.html

Mindmap like testing diagram - http://www.mindmeister.com/maps/show_public/3957006

Video and Slides for GTAC - http://googletesting.blogspot.com[..]posted-by-lydia-ash-gtac-conference.html http://googletesting.blogspot.com[..]0/12/gtac-5-videos-slides-abstracts.html

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Mon Jan 03 01:13:15 GMT 2011 From /weblog/software_engineering/testing

javascript tester

An simple example of doing javascript unit test - http://jroller.com[..]ray?entry=testing_javascript_with_groovy However this approach is too fake for me and easy to miss many thing, IMHO putting test a real environment is better

A site for javascript testing http://www.testdrivenjavascript.com

Test time in javascript - http://googletesting.blogspot.com[..]avascript-simulating-time-in-jsunit.html

And this is an example of using JDK6 scripting framework for testing javascript, pretty interesting , but probably not reflecting IE/MOZ behaviour - http://technology.amis.nl/blog/?p=1869

Use a scripting engine to test javascript - http://labnotes.org[..]nsanely-fast-full-stack-headless-testing

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Tue Nov 16 16:48:42 GMT 2010 From /weblog/software_engineering/testing

acceptance

Here is a more complicated framework, not looking good but still keep it here as the concept is interesting - http://sourceforge.net/projects/cubictest

The most excellent implementation for my need - http://www.concordion.org/

http://www.jamesshore.com/Blog/Five-Ways-to-Misuse-Fit.html - Don't use it as junit, "The whole point of Fit is to use HTML to speak the customer's language and fixtures to translate that language to code. "

http://jroller.com/njain/entry/is_fitnesse_ready_for_enterprise - Version control is #1 issue at that article

When use Fit/Fitness - http://madcoderspeak.blogspot.com[..]-do-i-use-for-acceptance-tests-atdd.html

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Tue Mar 09 01:37:46 GMT 2010 From /weblog/software_engineering/SCM

overview

Software CM creates the medium through which software development changes & activities must flow. Therefore, Software CM is the intentional architecture of software development change-flow. According to this article

http://bradapp.blogspot.com[..]/2007/05/software-cm-is-not-process.html

Survey result of difference VCS within thoughtwork - http://martinfowler.com/bliki/VcsSurvey.html

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Thu Dec 10 17:12:48 GMT 2009 From /weblog/software_engineering/testing

unit test cpp

http://typo.objectmentor.com[..]2007/07/03/observations-on-tdd-in-c-long
http://typo.objectmentor.com[..]pplications-should-use-several-languages

http://www.gamesfromwithin.com/articles/0412/000061.html
Quick guide of getting Legacy C application under test - http://www.renaissancesoftware.net/blog/archives/27

Using Boost.Test with Boost.Build - http://www.alittlemadness.com[..]12/04/using-boost-test-with-boost-build/

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Tue Dec 08 00:42:14 GMT 2009 From /weblog/software_engineering/project

project status checking

Can everyone on the team write the aim of the project on a post-it note with a thick flip-chart marker? If not, then the end game is not clearly defined and universally understood.

Come up to a colleague and say ‘can I ask a favour?’ just to see how they will react. If you get told off, the person is probably not very happy about the work. Richards advised building teams with “those who say can” , even when they are dealing with problems. Such people will improve collaboration and team spirit on the team.

When a phase of project is officially done, ask yourself “is it safe enough to move on?”. If this question gives you a bad gut-feel, you aren’t done yet.

How many of your projects ended with a serious project review? This is, according to Richards, crucial for organisational improvement, preventing repeated mistakes and sharing knowledge between teams.

How would people on the team feel about the customer saying “I’ve changed my mind”. If the response is negative, the system isn’t as flexible as it should be.

Ask someone for an update on a task and stay completely silent for 10 seconds – don’t do anything to provoke a response. If the other person is unsure or nervous about something, they will start spilling that out. If they too remain silent, things are going OK.

Do you know how much time was spent on testing on your last project / iteration? If you can’t even estimate this, you aren’t collecting good actual measurements of the project. Collecting actual measurements is, according to Richards, crucial for getting to realistic work estimates.

Pick up a document, turn it over and see what’s on the back. If you find diagrams, that suggest the need for clarity as people were drawing on it to explain things.

http://gojko.net[..]chniques-to-test-how-a-project-is-going/

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Sun Oct 18 02:48:52 GMT 2009 From /weblog/software_engineering/SCM

subversion

Subversion setup guide at windows
http://cephas.net[..]_control_with_subversion_on_windows.html http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001093.html

Use one click subversion is much easier
http://svn1clicksetup.tigris.org/

Here is a simple cookbook of svn server config
http://doc.lld.dk/wiki/SVNServerSetup
http://blog.taragana.com[..]p/archive/5-minutes-guide-to-subversion/

Tutorial of merge, people say it is good...
http://kenkinder.com/svnmerge/

CVS2SVN tutorial - http://sam.zoy.org/writings/programming/svn2cvs.html http://simonwoodside.com/weblog/2007/03/05

Patch tutorial - http://ariejan.net[..]reate-and-apply-a-patch-with-subversion/

Merge helper tools - http://www.unethicalblogger.com[..]ance/subversion_branching_with_less_pain

CollabNet Merge Client - http://merge-tracking.open.collab.net[..]s/2-Documents/Merge%20Client%20Overview/ http://merge-tracking.open.collab.net[..]%20Client%20Installation%20Instructions/

Sync 2 difference respository - http://code.google.com[..]t/bin/answer.py?answer=56673&topic=10386

Some more informations and discussions - http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?design.4.569505

Want to Undo change? http://svnbook.red-bean.com[..]m/en/1.0/svn-book.html#svn-ch-4-sect-4.2

Clean subclipse login cache - delete cache at c:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Subversion\auth

http://wordaligned.org/articles/steady-on-subversion

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Tue Sep 01 17:32:44 GMT 2009 From /weblog/software_engineering/SCM

clearcase

http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.324334

Discussion about SCM, consist a lot of comment about clearcase - http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000660.html

Why clearcase is bad - http://dreamhead.blogbus.com/logs/45327898.html

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Sun Jul 05 16:35:08 GMT 2009 From /weblog/software_engineering/testing

automatic test presentation

A presentation bascially say: "any start is a good start" - http://perl.plover.com/yak/testing/samples/

Short presentation illustrate many important concept of unit test - http://www.agitar.com/downloads/TheWayOfTestivus.pdf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testivus

Argument of not doing TDD will cost more - http://blog.objectmentor.com[..]ave-time-for-tdd-but-may-not-know-it-yet

Automated test or Test automated? - http://googletesting.blogspot.com[..]automating-tests-vs-test-automation.html

IT adventures: Creating a QA process from out of thin air - http://crazy-it-adventures.blogspot.com/2009/06/createing.html

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Tue May 12 03:33:56 GMT 2009 From /weblog/software_engineering/SCM

issues

If some of the source need to merge manually - http://thedailywtf.com/forums/thread/98959.aspx

Some common cross platform issues - http://www.ericsink.com/entries/quirky.html

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Sun Apr 05 17:25:04 GMT 2009 From /weblog/software_engineering/testing

Testometer Triangle Test

This is probably one of the most common question in software testing interview. This problem was first introduced by Myers, who was one of the first person to treat Software Testing as a different subject all together. This test check your ability to think about generating test data in a given condition.
Suppose your program accepts input as three sides of a triangle and gives output on what type of triangle is this i.e. Scalene (no sides are same), Isosceles (any two sides are same) or Equilateral (All the three sides are same). You have to come up with different test cases to test this program.
You can write your test cases here, by giving side of the triangles and evaluate your test data. Once you are done with all the test cases you can think of, check your performance. If you want to restart your test anytime, just click on the restart test button. I have not covered all the possible test cases here as idea is to give you sufficient information to get started.

http://www.testinggeek.com[..]er/154-triangle-test-in-software-testing

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Sun Apr 05 15:53:54 GMT 2009 From /weblog/software_engineering

Information radiator

http://alistair.cockburn.us/Information+radiator

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Fri Mar 06 14:36:44 GMT 2009 From /weblog/software_engineering

Automation

Automate build, test, and install processes.
Automate dull, tedious, or repetitive work
Automate to free time for creative, intellectual work.
Never automate evolving processes.
Do not automate in order to avoid human interaction.
Prefer physical artifacts with coercive immediacy
Software serves the team, never the reverse.

http://agileinaflash.blogspot.com/2009/02/automating-tasks.html

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Wed Jul 16 15:53:06 GMT 2008 From /weblog/software_engineering/SCM

distributed team

http://dobbscodetalk.com[..]on=com_myblog&task=view&id=526&Itemid=85
http://www.ddj.com[..]D=208802468&dept_url=/development-tools/

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