Thu 12 Jul 2007
3 things I learned at Sigist Conference, day 2
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Annotations from day 11/0702007 of the Sigist conference on Software Testing. (more…)
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Tue 10 Jul 2007
4.5 things I learned at Sigist Conference, day 1
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Wed 4 Jul 2007
The Triangle problem as a starting point – FitNesse Series (Part 1)
Posted by Shmuel Gershon under FitNesse, Nerd T35t1ng, Test Insight
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- Which came first, the chicken or the egg? And after all, why would any of them cross the road?
That question is as old as time. - How would you test a program which can return the type of a triangle based on the side widths?
That question is as old as me.
In 1979 (yes, I am that young 
), Glenford J. Myers
Called “The Art of Software Testing
Well, it turns out the principles of software – from writing it to testing it - are still pretty much the same. Software is still written on sort of punchcards, the punchcards just got more complex and flexible… The book content is surprisingly relevant for today’s testers – so much, that it was updated only once in almost 30 years.
If you haven’t, read the book. Unfortunately, I have read it only partially meanwhile.
Maybe the most known contribution of Mr. Glenford in this book is the testing self-assessment challenge in the introduction.
