Key takeaway: Consider thinking about how the personalities of your colleagues and their inter-personal relations influence the work you do. I had been a chess addict for most of my life. A few years ago, I decided to give up playing chess altogether. Chain smokers looking to break the smoking addiction often take refuge in nicotine patches. Poker became my […]
Expertise and the people component
Cool things I read this week (14-Dec-2014)
I read. A lot. And I share the five best things I read every week. This week’s topics includes the biography of a doctor, a DHH career AMA, a Bruce Eckel commencement address, Amazon’s editorial policies and a cool snake video. 1. Ignaz Semmelweis: A doctor that went mad trying to change the medical establishment 2. DHH career AMA 3. […]
Cool things I read this week (07-Dec-2014)
I read. A lot. And I share the five best things I read every week. This week’s topics include thoughts on individual mood on a team, visualizing test cases, coding becoming an essential skill, learning to fire employees and the most epic trolling I have seen. 1. Influence of individual moods on teams 2. Visualizing test cases 3. Obama becomes […]
Cool things I read this week (30-Nov-2014)
I read. A lot. And I share the five best things I read every week. This week’s topics include Internet comments, working remote, CERN, rands on the QA mindset and funny tweet. 1. Comments on Selenium going open-source (2004) 2. Yet another piece on working remote 3. CERN AMA 4. rands and the QA mindset 5. Funny tweet that hit […]
Thank you, Selenium!
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 […]
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 […]
Android unit testing: Android testing framework and Robolectric
Problem: There are not many good tutorials on Android unit testing Android applications are written in Java. So you probably think if you know JUnit, you can unit test Android applications. Surprise! JUnit is not sufficient for unit testing Android applications. Junit works when the code runs within a JVM. Android applications interact with the Android OS. So you need […]
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 […]