Selenium recently turned 10 years old. I want to point out a couple of under-appreciated contributions that Selenium has made towards my profession and my career. 1. Selenium makes testing memorable An under-appreciated aspect of Selenium tests are their inherent theatrical nature[1]. Testing performances rarely evoke positive emotion. Good testing is usually not memorable. Not many testing artifacts make testing […]
Thank you, Selenium!
Cool things I read this week (23-Nov-2014)
I read. A lot. And I share the five best things I read every week. This week’s topics include bugs, bug seeding, Python, Seinfeld videos and a much needed new service. 1. Ubisoft bugs 2. Bug seeding 3. Parallelism with Python 4. Seinfeld and economics 5. A much needed service My notes: 1. Ubisoft bugs Wow! Apparently Assassin’s Creed has […]
Cool things I read this week (16-Nov-2014)
I read. A lot. And I share the five best things I read every week. This week’s topics include US immigration, sub-atomic particles, thoughts on checklists, series-A funding and as usual a cartoon that hit home for me. 1. Obama’s executive order on immigration 2. Subatomic particles found at CERN 3. James Christie expanding on checklists 4. Surviving a series […]
Cool things I read this week (09-Nov-2014)
I read. A lot. And I share the five the best things I read every week. This week’s topics include working remote, Philae landing on the surface of a comet, Reddit’s drama at the top and some humor. 1. The responsibility Razor 2. Working remote 3. Philae lands on a comet 4. Reddit CEO resigns 5. Programmer humor My notes: […]
Cool things I read this week (02-Nov-2014)
I read. A lot. And I share the five best things I read every week. This week’s list consists of a Gerry Weinberg article on requirements, a discussion on technical debt with Ward Cunningham and Capers Jones, charging cell phone batteries, a Foxconn worker and some cool art 1. Ambiguity in stating requirements 2. On technical debt 3. Charging cell […]
Cool things I read this week (26-Oct-2014)
I read. A lot. And I share the 5 best things I read every week. This week features an interesting take on a failure model, a Andreesen Horowitz presentation, crash test dummies, a thought provoking talk on the role luck plays and yet another org chart cartoon. 1. Crash only thinking 2. Mobile is eating the world 3. Overweight crash […]
Cool things I read this week (19-Oct-2014)
I read. A lot. And I share the 5 best things I read every week. This week features acquisition flip-flops, a talk about scaling engineering teams at startups, a math puzzle, sleep and Superman! 1. A tumblr dedicated to acquisitions and post acquisition flip-flops 2. Stripe CTO on scaling engineering teams at startups 3. A math puzzle 4. I’m apparently […]
Cool things I read this week (12-Oct-2014)
I read. A lot. And I share the 5 best things I read every week. This week features IE8, remote teams, security and testing. 1. IE8 disables redirects when security setting is set to high 2. Joel Spolsky on remote engineering teams 3. What managers think they know about automation (58 minutes) 4. People literally give up crucial personal data […]
Cool things I read this week (05-Oct-2014)
I read. A lot. And these are the five most interesting things I read this week. Topics this week include the continuing Reddit drama, Seth Godin’s take on hiring and scaling, sleep, drawbacks of Appium and the origin of the phrase “patching software”. 1. Reddit CEO responds to a fired employee’s AMA 2. Seth Godin on hiring and scaling 3. […]
Cool things I read this week (28-Sep-2014)
I read. A lot. And these are the five most interesting things I read this week. Topics this week include startups, sleep, the Reddit work-from-home storm, the evolving role of testing and the origin of the Nigerian prince scam. 1. Before the startup by Paul Graham 2. Sleep experiments documented 3. Test mercenaries 4. Reddit and remote workers 5. Origins […]