It’s not a question, it’s a statement: I’ll describe exactly what’s wrong with them and my solution, nay, the solution to the problems. This is not some thinly veiled racist protectionistic “the problem is really outsourcing” manifesto, but rather a description of what is wrong with […]
I often do analysis of logs. I have used many different tools, from a simple ad-hoc command-line analysis using sed and grep, over a more detailed analysis using Excel, and all the way to setting up dedicated reporting tools like Jasper Reports or Grafana. […]
So, somebody1 forgot the administrator password to an OpenAM installation, and I needed to reset it. This is not a supported operation, and in the interest of being positive, let’s just say it was a journey with opportunities to make it work… First, this […]
If that title doesn't give you like 2 or 3 lines in bullshit bingo, nothing except a meeting with a Scrum coach can help you there. It's accurate, though. It's a thing that should be extremely simple, yet either my Google-Fu is too weak […]
I motivated the need for a user-friendly tool supporting model-based testing in practice in a previous post. The gist is that industry best-practice relies on logical test-cases rather than testing everything, and that is bad for software quality. The reason, I theorize, is that […]
I’m working on a project where testing is important. We had a predecessor project with the same customer, and testing was also considered important at that time. During the previous project, I had problems communicating with the test coordinator; for one thing, we put […]