Stop Working & Start Thinking is intended to help postgraduate students make profitable use of an essential piece of scientific equipment: their mind. I'm only a short way in, and finding it a bit dense at times, but there's already a few passages I'm loving. Here's one (page 15):Science asks questions, and it has a small variety of ways...read the article from rss feed

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Over the past few weeks I’ve been trying out a method for personal productivity that I call Frog Day. Every Monday is my Frog Day Log Day. That means today ......read the article from rss feed

Agile hiring as based on interviews we do for Tester (people who’s primary role in the team will be the testing activities). Via twitter I came across a blog post from Cassandra H. Leung (@tweet_cassandra) about Tester Interviews: Techniques and Tasks which describes on a high level, how a diverse set of techniques can be … Continue r...read the article from rss feed

A few weeks ago I found myself in a circular conversation about end-to-end testing. I felt like I was at odds with my colleague, but couldn't figure out why. Eventually we realised that we each had a different understanding of what end-to-end meant in the testing that we were discussing.That conversation lead to this poll on Twitter: Do you use 'en...read the article from rss feed

Browsing Twitter, I came across a thought-provoking tweet: Oh, I'm no tester. I'm a dev who loves testers cos of how I can't test. I can check my code is working, but I can't tell when it's broken.— Liz Keogh (@lunivore) July 22, 2017 Liz Keogh is amazing in more ways that I can start explaining, and in my books she is a programmer who is dec...read the article from rss feed

I’ve always had a special fondness for comic books of the 1960s, the so-called Silver Age. Everyone knows Superman and Spiderman, and so on. But there were some interesting super hero comic book titles that aren’t as well known. Here … Continue reading → ...read the article from rss feed

A retrospective was on it's way. Post-it's with Keep / Drop / Try were added as we discussed together the perspectives. I stood a little on the side, being the loud one, leaving room for other people's voices. And then one voice spoke out, attaching a post-it on the wall:"It's so great we have full test automation for this feature"My mind races. Su...read the article from rss feed

I wrote an article in the July 2017 issue of Visual Studio Magazine titled “Neural Network Cross Entropy Error using Python”. See https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2017/07/01/cross-entropy.aspx. For beginners to neural networks, cross entropy error (also called “log loss”) can be very confusing. Cross … Contin...read the article from rss feed

What time is it? Game time! Well, almost, it’s time for the latest #30daysoftesting challenge. Again organized by ministry of testing, this time with some support of the PerfGuild. Which leads us to the topic of this challenge: performance testing. Instead of posting a blogpost afterwards, I decided to start one right from the beginning... Co...read the article from rss feed

Any testing effort contains several documents prepared as part of the testing process, each document is prepared to answer a specific request/demand during the software development life cycle such as: Software Requirements specification (SRS) Software High Level Design (HLD). Risk Management Plan (SRM). Software Test Design (STD) Software Test...read the article from rss feed

Jerry Weinberg's definition of quality is well known. It is generally applied to encapsulate a relationship between a person and a product, at a particular time, and goes like this:Quality is value to some personIt is intended to be a practical tool, and I think Weinberg would agree with something like this as a gloss for it: theoretical assessm...read the article from rss feed

Agile is not a state of doing; it’s a state of being. Adopting business models on value and learning how to make teams autonomous are both necessary steps to reap the benefit of agility. ...read the article from rss feed

Recently, a discussion about essential mathematics for machine learning engineering occurred with some of my colleagues. Every now and then, in machine learning literature, the terms “first moment” and “second moment” will pop up. If you are an engineer and … Continue reading → ...read the article from rss feed

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I don’t normally put personal stuff here, but I wanted to let folks know why I might seem a little slow to respond or distracted lately. Last year my wife got me a rescue kitten as a positive distraction from … Read more...read the article from rss feed

First Rule of Summer: 1 ice cream a day keeps the bosses away. ...read the article from rss feed

MantisBT open source free popular bug tracking system tutorial: Testing is an integral part of any software development life cycle. The software bug is an error in a software application which causes software to produce incorrect results. Therefore, causing deviation in the expected, and actual outcome. A bug tracking software is a software a...read the article from rss feed

Second part of the Leadership resoponsibilities for a better unit testing implementation on Everyday Unit Testing. Check it out. Also, don’t get too close to the cat, it’s on fire....read the article from rss feed

Adam is a machine learning optimization algorithm. “Adam” is not an acronym strictly speaking (which is why it’s not capitalized) but it stands for “adaptive moment estimation”. Adam was first published in July 2015 (24 months ago as I write … Continue reading → ...read the article from rss feed