Why Nightly Build Is A Must-Have

That is pretty cool that your CI polls SCM every minute to build and tests your code instantly. However, you still need a nightly build. Read why.

 

Few Words To Headhunters

Seems like having my CV online and my profiles on LinkedIn and
Goldenline up-to-date makes ma a popular person among IT headhunters.
Great, this is exactly as I wanted it to be. But this is not what I
wanted to write about. Dear Headhunters, you contact me a lot, so let
me give you some feedback on your actions.

Source: http://blog.seriph.com/bunnies/oh-no
Head hunter ;)

In general, you people are really tactful and it is a pleasure to talk with. Really. But there are few things that makes me mad. And this post is about them.

 

Taking Over a Project

So I'm taking over a new project as a technical team lead. This team has been working for some time (for a long time). Now my task is to lead its further development. I'm excited and worried at the same time.

I spent some time wondering about what should I know about this new project and about the team. Here is the list of topics that I think I should gather some information about. Maybe someone else will find them useful. I also hope for someone giving me hints about things that I forgot.

 

GeeCON 2011 Who Watches The Watchmen?

Slides from GeeCON 2011 "Who watches the watchmen? - on quality of tests" are available. Enjoy ! :)

 

GeeCON 2011 Conference Day I and II

This is a review of the first and the second GeeCON 2011 Conference Days.

 

GeeCON 2011 University Day

It was an interesting day at GeeCON 2011 !

I managed to attend two talks: Paradoxes of API design, by Jaroslav Tulach and JEE 6 tutorial by Antonio Goncalves and Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine. Both were interesting.

 

I tell you, it can't be done!

The progress of computers and software has taught us, that there are not many things that can not be done. Linux, Google, Facebook, cloud computing, open source etc. has shocked us with solutions we hadn't even dreamed about. Still, I often hear (and use myself) this phrase: "it can't be done". This post is about trying to understand what is really hidden behind these words.

 

Selenium 1.0 Testing Tools Beginner's Guide - book review

This is a review of "Selenium 1.0 Testing Tools: Beginner's Guide" book by David Burns (Packt Pub, 2010).

 

Visualization Of Dependent Test Methods

One day I started to experiment with visualization of test dependencies. I thought that maybe Graphviz can help to provide some nice diagrams that would help me see instantly what went wrong, and why some tests are skipped. In this post I present my achievements so far.

 

Testing Basics: SUT and DOCs

This blog post is devoted to two unsung heroes of testing: SUT and DOC. Who are they and what is their role in unit, integration and end-to-end tests?

 

 
 
 
This used to be my blog. I moved to http://tomek.kaczanowscy.pl long time ago.

 
 
 

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