Risky Business — How to Test With Priority

Risky Business — How to Test With Priority

If you’ve ever had difficulty prioritizing testing activities, you’re not alone. Iterative frameworks like Agile mean testing is performed in miniature cycles that add up to what eventually becomes a product release. Unfortunately, though, testers don’t necessarily...
Is Development Experience a Pre-requisite for Great Testing?

Curiosity Makes the Tester

You know when you have a set of test cases to get through before the end of the day, but something catches your eye?  What do you do?  Do you indulge your curiosity, or do you carry on like a good tester?   I find myself in this position nearly every...
How to Avoid Agile’s Wrath

How to Avoid Agile’s Wrath

By Oliver Holzbauer via Flickr https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/legalcode   We’ve all been there.  It’s three days to the end of the sprint and suddenly the business decides that the world will END unless a brand-new feature (that they...
Is Development Experience a Pre-requisite for Great Testing?

Overcoming Javascript Numeric Precision Issues

In Javascript, all numbers are encoded as double precision floating point numbers, following the international IEEE 754 standard. This format stores numbers in 64 bits, where the number, the fraction (AKA mantissa), is stored in bits 0 to 51, the exponent in bits 52...