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Why Software SUCKS…

By on January 17, 2009 in Curious & Off-Topic, Management

I just finished reading a book that EVERYONE who has anything to do with the software development process needs to read ASAP (and I mean, before you write your next line of code or perform your next tests). The name of the book is Why Software SUCKS… and what you can do about it by [...]

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What did I learn this year as a Tester…?

By on December 20, 2008 in Curious & Off-Topic

December is more than half gone and we are getting to the end of the year. In the spirit of On-Going-Improvement and the art of Good Retrospectives I decided to take a look back at these past 12 months and make a list of what I’ve learned during this year that’s coming to an end. [...]

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How to build your Killer SaaS Application?

By on November 19, 2008 in Curious & Off-Topic

Hello all! Usually this blog focuses on QA methodologies, test processes, testing tools, platforms and QA best practices; but from time to time, we will also talk about related topics such as: technology, IT, SaaS (Software as a Service or On Demand solutions) and more. Many people asked me what are the key things to [...]

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New heblog in PractiTest – for all our Israeli readers

By on November 17, 2008 in Curious & Off-Topic

I apologize up-front for the one-sided localization of this post ) But I am sure all our Israeli Readers will enjoy the newest addition to the PractiTest family – http://heblog.practitest.com (our Hebrew language Blog) Kudos to Yaniv for starting this endeavor. Yaniv promised that this blog will touch subjects around Software Development, SaaS, technology, and [...]

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The Pesticide Paradox: how to keep your tests relevant.

By on October 26, 2008 in Curious & Off-Topic, Management, On-Going Improvement, Test Process

Almost 20 years ago Boris Beizer stated what became known as the Pesticide Paradox: “Every method you use to prevent or find bugs leaves a residue of subtler bugs against which those methods are ineffectual.” In plain English this means that as you run your tests multiple times, they stop been effective in catching bugs. [...]

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Reading the signs on the wall

By on July 14, 2008 in Best Practices, Curious & Off-Topic

My laptop died today. It got stuck in mid work; I tried rebooting and it started displaying a consistent blue-screen with the message “Unmountable boot volume” written in bold white letters. The annoying thing is that I saw it coming.A couple of weeks ago I noticed that it had started getting extra hot after short [...]

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