Perze Ababa

what documentation tells you ... What really happens in real life ... Sources:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9069061/what-is-the-difference-between-git-merge-and-git-merge-no-ff http://stacko...

http://perze.blogspot.com/2016/08/git-merge.html

The past two months have been surprisingly busy. Took in a mentee at work that's based in Latin America, we talk once every two weeks. It's mostly an open conversation but we've solved two testin...

http://perze.blogspot.com/2016/02/two-months-down-ten-to-go.html

There's a running conversation on twitter about the definition of "integration testing" and also the notion of "integration" when it comes to software or just systems as a whole. I think that und...

http://perze.blogspot.com/2016/01/symbiosis-and-software-systems.html

This is definitely a weird bug. As you can see from the video above, I can neither accept nor ignore a location tag request. This was an instagram shared image and the privacy setting for the ima...

http://perze.blogspot.com/2016/01/yet-another-facebook-bug-location-tag.html

The State of Testing Survey for 2016 is finally here. I've participated in the past two surveys and the results enabled me to ask management specific questions around skill, education, processes ...

http://perze.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-2016-state-of-testing-survey-is-here.html

C-R-A-S-H-I-N-G I've been having issues with my Mac lately and it gets pretty annoying when you get logged out for what seems to be no reason at all. This all started when I had to use Lenovo's U...

http://perze.blogspot.com/2016/01/displaylink-drivers-and-google-chrome.html

I intended to do this on January 1st, but didn't. I wanted to do it again on January 2nd, still didn't. It's now the 8th and if I don't do it now, I might just never. So here we go. Last year was...

http://perze.blogspot.com/2016/01/happy-arbitrary-rollover-date.html

Drupal is my CMS, I shall always be in want. Drupal makes me lie down in PHPastures; Drupal leads me to murky MySQL waters; Drupal restores my code on every reroll. Drupal leads me not in the rig...

http://perze.blogspot.com/2015/11/drupal-8-is-finally-out-let-us-pray.html

testing, management, automation and other things that's worth discussing beyond 140 characters

http://perze.blogspot.com/2015/11/bug-counting.html

The act of Software Development essentially produces two things, value and waste. Value can be rather vague when you don't understand the context. According to +Gerald Weinberg, Qu...

http://perze.blogspot.com/2015/08/remembering-cast2015-value-and-waste-as.html

This is my second CAST that I've attended in person and technically the fourth that I've participated in by watching the live webcast. I flew into GRR on sunday and had the chance to catch u...

http://perze.blogspot.com/2015/08/remembering-cast2015-part-1.html

Controllability and Observability are two basic pillars of testability. In order for me to test a given system, I should be able to observe data or a given state. For me to make my tests even mo...

http://perze.blogspot.com/2015/02/how-controllability-is-causing-me-some.html

Recently, I had the chance to work with one of our engineering groups and lead load testing efforts for one of our web redesign projects. The objective was simple, introduce stress into the syste...

http://perze.blogspot.com/2014/04/lessons-learned-from-two-dollar-load.html

One of the better analogies I've heard about testing starts with the notion of preparing a dish that you will be serving to someone. As a chef you would probably ask what the customer wants and y...

http://perze.blogspot.com/2014/03/testing-lessons-learned-from-dum-biryani.html

Ever since I started playing strategy and role playing video games, I've been exposed to the concept of the fog of war. A fog of war, in video game speak, essentially simulates the unknown elemen...

http://perze.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-testing-fog-of-war.html

Software Test Automation is a conundrum. It is also very misunderstood especially by people who do not understand testing and the value it brings. More often than not, when Test Automation is bei...

http://perze.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-fiat-of-test-automation.html

I jumped into the iOS7 bandwagon as soon as the goldfinger Gold Master version was announced. Here's what I realized about it in the past 6 days. I installed the Gold Master Build on a 2 yea...

http://perze.blogspot.com/2013/09/6-days-with-ios-7.html

This started as a Test Manager survey from Mike Lyles (https://t.co/LSvlWobcdW) and as I was answering question 45, I just kept on writing. Any test manager needs to understand the three basic th...

http://perze.blogspot.com/2013/03/test-management-is-more-about-testing.html

In the past two years, we have been trying to find a way on how to employ stand up meetings properly but have had very disastrous results. I've always been trying to look at the factors why we ca...

http://perze.blogspot.com/2013/02/stand-and-deliver.html

Everyone who has an iOS device knows how bad the data within the maps app is. Little do people know that Siri's weather functionality also yields inaccurate data. My basis for comparison in this ...

http://perze.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-other-apple-app-with-inaccurate-data.html

I was watching some youtube videos that were recently uploaded by my martial arts school and I noticed something funny, possibly messed up, and maybe even racist. I can't really blame anyone sinc...

http://perze.blogspot.com/2012/10/once-upon-video-suggestion.html

You might have heard testers use the term Oracles and/or Heuristics when discussing how we test our projects. I'd like to provide an explanation of the context in which we as testers use these te...

http://perze.blogspot.com/2012/04/of-oracles-and-heuristics.html

Last year, there was this mania about the death of testing. I don't know when it started, or who started it, but that doesn't matter now. Looking from the outside, I observed some of the staunche...

http://perze.blogspot.com/2012/02/stigma-of-test-manager-part-one.html

Thirteen years and an hour ago,  I arrived in this country via Philadelphia, PA. I remember it was cold, very cold. Snow on the ground and a bit gloomy. We (I was traveling with a co-worker)...

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don't.

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