distributedlife

passionate about everything

# Published Title
319 2011/Jul/31 Trainlines and discovery
318 2011/Jul/26 On game design
317 2011/Jul/20 Musings on bookstores
316 2011/Jul/19 Musings on ebook readers
315 2011/Jul/18 Introducing Trainlines rail routes and google maps ftw
314 2011/Jul/17 New Blog and a perfectly cromulent one at that
313 2011/Jan/19 Road Maps A plan of what is to be learnt
312 2011/Jan/18 A fundamental discipline a change from a concept of fundamentals to another discipline
311 2011/Jan/12 Eight Disciplines A set of specialisations that reflect the diversity that exists in the profession
310 2010/Nov/30 Tangible Giving Now saving a life is can be funny
309 2010/Nov/25 Learning Objectives Guidance in developing our careers
308 2010/Nov/25 Very Early Thirties So many years left to go, thirty is irrelevant.
307 2010/Nov/23 Three things To overcome three problems we need a framework that does three things
306 2010/Nov/22 It begins with a sad story An anecdote about struggling in software testing and the research it started
305 2010/Nov/22 It never ends futures in software testing redux...
304 2010/Nov/15 Futures in Software Testing – Beijing! Speaking at B' QConf 2010
303 2010/Oct/31 We don’t serve the end user it's well past time to consider the bigger picture
302 2010/Oct/30 Post Iqnite Thoughts soft skills and improved articulation
301 2010/Oct/25 Futures in Software Testing Presentation see you at Iqnite 2010 Sydney
300 2010/Oct/06 Comments They've all been deleted
299 2010/Oct/05 Fluid Role Definitions is how we classify things important in the grand scheme of things?
298 2010/Oct/03 I’m Back!
297 2010/May/28 the waterfall of defects because throwing it over the wall is fun
296 2010/May/27 Copying tests between HP Service Test Projects adding tests is still too much work
295 2010/May/26 Bulk Test Creation using HP Service Test a sorely lacking feature... solved!
294 2010/May/25 Testing For Odd Perfect Numbers because testing for even perfect numbers is too easy
293 2010/May/24 A Brief Update the times they are a changing
292 2010/May/17 Lint Free Tests no fluff
291 2010/May/17 Business Engagement Models don't change for you, don't change a thing for me
290 2010/May/12 Survey Complete to be continued...
289 2010/May/10 Traffic Lights vs. Ticks and Crosses an anecdote regarding the benefits of tester specialisation
288 2010/May/07 Getting to the real issue sometimes the first solution isn't for the current problem
287 2010/May/06 It’s the little things… implicit dependencies make bugs hard to find
286 2010/May/05 Why don’t we test our own processes? I’ve always done it this way regardless of quality so why should I change?
285 2010/May/04 It is still a coincidence but it has trend potential more test managers are heading back to testing
284 2010/May/03 Software Testing Research 75% of people know that surveys result in bandy-able statistics
283 2010/Apr/30 Breadth first approach to service testing a lesson learnt in service testing
282 2010/Apr/28 Games for Testers – Sudoku more games for testers
281 2010/Apr/27 Project vs. Enterprise Services enterprise services are the waterfall model of the SOA world
280 2010/Apr/26 Games for Testers – Logic Puzzles another game for testing relaxation
279 2010/Apr/24 The Most Awesomest Thing Ever testers; they are awesome and they help you be more awesome
278 2010/Apr/23 Failure Evident Systems should software systems too big to fail be failure evident?
277 2010/Apr/22 Futures in Software Testing a new approach to software testing education and development
276 2010/Apr/21 Futures in Software Testing – Story #2 how Andy decided that user interaction and the business domain knowledge disciplines were right for her
275 2010/Apr/20 Futures in Software Testing – Story #1 how the disciplines in software testing model saved one tester from a career in management
274 2010/Apr/19 Futures in Software Testing – Futures and Present Self planning a future in software testing
273 2010/Apr/18 Click here to ignore this message in future… automating one off tests in the UI
272 2010/Apr/17 One time offer on defects integration issues that only occur once
271 2010/Apr/16 Futures in Software Testing – Measuring Competence Pt 2. an updated approach to the self assessment classifications
270 2010/Apr/16 Software that is too big to fail The impact of defects is much bigger when the software impacts society
269 2010/Apr/15 Futures in Software Testing – The Security Tester introducing the security tester discipline
268 2010/Apr/14 Futures in Software Testing – The User Interaction Tester introducing the discipline of the user interaction tester
267 2010/Apr/13 Futures in Software Testing – The Infrastructure & Integration Tester introducing the discipline of infrastructure and integration testing
266 2010/Apr/12 Futures in Software Testing – The Behavioural & Functionality Tester introducing the discipline of behaviour and functionality testing
265 2010/Apr/11 Regression Tests as a Test Smell aimless testing because we don’t understand the change or business is bad practice
264 2010/Apr/10 ISupport Contracts with Behaviours in PHP reusable behaviours with interaction contracts
263 2010/Apr/09 Futures in Software Testing – Test Lead & Test Manager introducing the discipline of management
262 2010/Apr/08 Futures in Software Testing – The Business Domain Knowledge Tester introducing the business domain knowledge tester
261 2010/Apr/07 Futures in Software Testing – The Performance Tester the technical discipline of performance testing
260 2010/Apr/06 Futures in Software Testing – The Automation Tester introducing the discipline of automation
259 2010/Apr/05 Games for Testers – Find a Word illustrating techniques using puzzles
258 2010/Apr/04 Vanilla C with Sprinkles – Find and Replace find and replace for Vanilla C and HP Service Test
257 2010/Apr/03 Vanilla C with Sprinkles – Windows Event Log Checking the event log using vanilla c
256 2010/Apr/02 Futures in Software Testing – Assessment Model measuring competency in software testing
255 2010/Apr/01 Futures in Software Testing – Fundamentals core competencies in software testing
254 2010/Apr/01 NATA – nada free tip: if you represent testing authorities don't have bugs in your homepage
253 2010/Mar/31 Futures in Software Testing – Disciplines eight directions for professional testing development
252 2010/Mar/30 Vanilla C with Sprinkles – Trimming Strings Using one simple function my strings are much more trim
251 2010/Mar/29 Futures in Software Testing – System Testing Sucks developing futures in software testing
250 2010/Mar/28 Vanilla C with Sprinkles – Useful String Functions making your life easier with basic string functions in vanilla c
249 2010/Mar/27 Vanilla C with Sprinkles – Windows Registry Fun! checking the windows registry using vanilla C
248 2010/Mar/26 QC Service Test Cleanup a job to cleanup the ridiculous number of files generated during a service testing run
247 2010/Mar/25 Useful HP Service Test Results generating metrics from Quality Centre and Service Test
246 2010/Mar/25 The writings on the paper paper is stoopid and we should only use it for benefit
245 2010/Mar/24 Quality Centre Cycle Changer automating cycle changes in QC
244 2010/Mar/23 HP Service Test & Quality Centre Nightly Test Runner automating service test execution
243 2010/Mar/22 Structuring Service Tests in Quality Centre using a folder structure to service test information
242 2010/Mar/19 An approach to software testing automation automated tests that don't break constantly; say it ain't so
241 2010/Mar/18 If you’re not testing, you’re not testing a motto for testers with work to do
240 2010/Mar/17 Automating the passing of a failing test annotating tests to detect changes in behaviour
239 2010/Mar/17 Epic fail how not to publish a blog post
238 2010/Mar/16 Testing Cross Cutting Concerns in HP Service Test auditing, exception reporting and data persistence testing, oh my!
237 2010/Mar/15 Vanilla C with Sprinkles – file existence and content checking file existence and whether a file is empty using Vanilla C
236 2010/Mar/12 Vanilla C with Sprinkles – remote file fun deleting and renaming a file remotely
235 2010/Mar/11 Vanilla C with Sprinkles – file reading reading a UTF-8 file
234 2010/Mar/10 Improving HP Service Testing Summary collected wisdom
233 2010/Mar/10 UX Addendum and another thing...
232 2010/Mar/09 UX for Intersections taking a step back and looking at the decision process rather the decision outcome
231 2010/Mar/08 finding bugs with luck user testing is not a replacement for actual testing
230 2010/Mar/05 HP Service Test – Protocols Configuration bug the bug that stops you from using different protocol configurations in the same iteration against the same service
229 2010/Mar/04 Improving HP Service Tests Part 8 being executed as!
228 2010/Mar/03 Improving HP Service Tests Part 7 fixtures for validation
227 2010/Mar/02 Improving HP Service Tests Part 6 validating fault behaviour
226 2010/Mar/01 Improving HP Service Tests Part 5 great fault expectations
225 2010/Feb/26 Service Testing – What are we checking? for every service outcome there exists some validation we have to do
224 2010/Feb/25 Improving HP Service Test Part 4 surfing the pipeline
223 2010/Feb/24 Improving HP Service Tests Part 3 configuring service tests for use
222 2010/Feb/23 Finding the Minimum Set a workflow for service testing new operations
221 2010/Feb/22 Improving HP Service Tests Part 2 focus on the delta!
220 2010/Feb/19 Automated Data Integrity Testing trust me; it's freaking sweet
219 2010/Feb/18 Pre-Integration Environments function test and system test are old fashioned, out dated and finally, stoopid names.
218 2010/Feb/17 Passing the failing test identifying change in regression tests
217 2010/Feb/16 Process Improvements Learning from those who are learning
216 2010/Feb/15 Quality Assured Google Buzz and why it probably passed testing
215 2010/Feb/07 Nothing to see here if you notice this notice you will notice this notice is not worth noticing
214 2010/Jan/28 The Great Australian Internet Blackout a look at the complexity of testing nationwide web filters
213 2009/Dec/10 Changing the Service Location in HP Service Test a workaround for stoopid behaviour
212 2009/Dec/09 Improving HP Service Tests – Part 1 one small step for writing less code
211 2009/Dec/08 all aboard the failboat how to miss the basics of testing and usability in a very simple web application
210 2009/Nov/26 Finding bugs is not always fun why I waited 35 minutes at 2 in the morning for a taxi
209 2009/Nov/11 Shorthand Methods in HP Service Test
208 2009/Nov/10 Local Parameters and HP Service Test
207 2009/Nov/09 Parameterisation and Strings in HP Service Test
206 2009/Nov/06 The Microwave Free Lifestyle
205 2009/Oct/27 Better default run time settings for HP Service Test
204 2009/Oct/19 Data Dependant Service Testing
203 2009/Oct/17 Peculiar Bugs…NetBeans IDE 6.5.1
202 2009/Oct/14 Floriade 2009
201 2009/Oct/12 Identity Specific and Anonymous Data
200 2009/Oct/10 Washing Machine Usability
199 2009/Oct/07 Does Remote Directory Exist?
198 2009/Oct/03 Peculiar Bugs…Nokia N95 redux
197 2009/Oct/02 Speeding Up Test Development in HP Service Test
196 2009/Oct/01 Structuring HP Service Tests
195 2009/Jun/26 Choice is not an option
194 2009/Jun/05 Test Execution Peer Reviews
193 2009/Jun/04 The How of Testing
192 2009/Apr/13 Weeding the Garden
191 2009/Apr/12 2009 – Progress Update
190 2009/Apr/11 Melbourne, F1 and Donations vs. Taxes
189 2009/Apr/10 Performance Testing the Cache – The Point of it all
188 2009/Apr/09 Load Testing the Cache – User Quantities and Expected Behaviours
187 2009/Apr/08 Load Testing the Cache – Memory Usage Over Cache Access
186 2009/Apr/07 Testing the Cache – Forcing Cache Collisions
185 2009/Apr/06 Testing the Cache – Auditing
184 2009/Apr/05 Testing the Cache – Security
183 2009/Apr/04 Testing the Cache – Shared vs. User Level Caching
182 2009/Apr/03 FeedDemon bug report
181 2009/Apr/03 Testing the Cache – Multiple Caches
180 2009/Mar/31 Testing the Cache Priority Policy
179 2009/Feb/26 Testing the Cache – Cache Dependency
178 2009/Feb/23 drabble (4/26)
177 2009/Feb/19 Testing the Cache – Sliding Expiration Policy
176 2009/Feb/18 Testing the Cache – Absolute Expiration Policy
175 2009/Feb/18 Testing the Cache – Quick Clarification
174 2009/Feb/17 Testing the Cache
173 2009/Feb/16 Updates
172 2009/Feb/16 Brooke Fraser – Scarlet (7/52)
171 2009/Feb/15 Crowded House – Distant Sun (6/52)
170 2009/Feb/09 regrets – (drabble 3/26)
169 2009/Feb/06 Short Story 1/12 – Chad
168 2009/Feb/04 Live – White, Discussion (5/52)
167 2009/Feb/02 Welcome back
166 2009/Feb/02 obscure integration bug
165 2009/Feb/02 usability and time zones
164 2009/Jan/25 2/26 drabble – reverse psychology
163 2009/Jan/25 The Music – New Instrumental
162 2009/Jan/23 2009 – International Year of Finishing
161 2009/Jan/23 For those who came in late… 2008 in review
160 2009/Jan/23 Idleaide
159 2009/Jan/18 Bob Dylan – Not Dark Yet
158 2009/Jan/11 before too long
157 2009/Jan/11 Holly Throsby – Berlin Chair
156 2009/Jan/11 twenty six drabbles
155 2009/Jan/11 26 drabbles – the cookie jar
154 2009/Jan/05 52 Stories on Music
153 2009/Jan/05 Death Cab For Cutie – Brothers On A Hotel Bed
152 2009/Jan/05 In just a few moments…
151 2008/Dec/15 It’s a long way to the cache…
150 2008/Nov/27 Improving Tests
149 2008/Nov/26 Diagnoses Delicious
148 2008/Nov/24 The Relevance of Testing
147 2008/Nov/20 Collector Pattern
146 2008/Nov/20 Notes on Travel – Afternoon Driving
145 2008/Nov/19 Debugging Double Instances
144 2008/Nov/19 Notes on Travel – Late Checkouts
143 2008/Nov/18 How can we make testing sexier?
142 2008/Nov/17 I’m back…
141 2008/Nov/11 Bug of the Day
140 2008/Nov/08 I have no idea
139 2008/Nov/03 When knowing quality matters
138 2008/Oct/24 Cryptography, Linux, randomness and virtualisation
137 2008/Oct/23 Intuitive?
136 2008/Oct/21 Static Testing
135 2008/Oct/20 Agile Gripes – Testing by HAL9000
134 2008/Oct/19 CakePHP Unit Testing Gripe #703
133 2008/Oct/19 CakePHP Model Testing Addendum
132 2008/Oct/18 Agile Gripes – Developers
131 2008/Oct/17 Agile Gripes – Documentation
130 2008/Oct/16 CakePHP Unit Testing Gotchas
129 2008/Oct/15 That Was Fun
128 2008/Oct/15 The Testing of Services Summary
127 2008/Oct/14 Incomplete Requirements
126 2008/Oct/14 A Case against Early Integration
125 2008/Oct/13 Service Testing – How It Should Be Done
124 2008/Oct/10 Service Mockery and Automated Integration Testing
123 2008/Oct/03 Bullseye!
122 2008/Oct/02 Which Questions to Ask?
121 2008/Sep/30 May I Ask a Question? questioning the name of the game
120 2008/Sep/27 2008 Premiers
119 2008/Sep/26 A Different Model for Service Testing
118 2008/Sep/25 Service Testing Focus
117 2008/Sep/24 Service Documentation & Testing Implications
116 2008/Sep/23 Service Implementation Testing Implications
115 2008/Sep/22 Non Functional Service Testing Implications
114 2008/Sep/21 Service Testing Directions
113 2008/Sep/20 Woohoo!
112 2008/Sep/19 In Summary
111 2008/Sep/18 Crowd Sourcing Testers
110 2008/Sep/16 Reinventing the Proverb
109 2008/Sep/15 Big Brother
108 2008/Sep/15 Vodcasting
107 2008/Sep/15 YouTube High Definition
106 2008/Sep/15 I will possess your heart
105 2008/Sep/14 Code Coverage
104 2008/Sep/14 I couldn’t believe it either…
103 2008/Sep/13 There shall be only one!
102 2008/Sep/12 Hilarity Ensues
101 2008/Sep/12 Tamnavulin 12yo
100 2008/Sep/11 100 Posts. w00t!!ONE!
99 2008/Aug/23 Psychics
98 2008/Aug/20 The spirit of the game
97 2008/Aug/20 Do you know what I like?
96 2008/Aug/20 How I want searching to be better
95 2008/Aug/19 Cuil: A conspiracy theorists guide
94 2008/Aug/19 The Back Button
93 2008/Aug/16 Simplified Scheduling
92 2008/Aug/16 Mah Zert!
91 2008/Aug/14 Fingers to Keys
90 2008/Aug/14 I’m back
89 2008/Aug/14 Agile Philosophy – Co-location
88 2008/Jul/31 Agile Philosophy – Validation
87 2008/Jul/29 Agile Philosophy – Business Involvement
86 2008/Jul/28 Organic whatevz
85 2008/Jul/27 Contractable Development Teams
84 2008/Jul/27 le tour de france 2008
83 2008/Jul/26 What is the most important role in the development team?
82 2008/Jul/24 Agile Special Interest Group
81 2008/Jul/24 Stoopid Host
80 2008/Jul/21 Testing is in the eye of the beholder
79 2008/Jul/19 Wading through large documents
78 2008/Jul/18 All quiet on the testing front…
77 2008/Jul/10 Magazine Marketing
76 2008/Jul/10 Usability for Dentists
75 2008/Jul/09 from the trenches… #2
74 2008/Jul/08 from the trenches…
73 2008/Jul/07 Technical and Semantic Compliance
72 2008/Jul/05 Web Comics
71 2008/Jun/30 Customer service != clear-text privacy data transmission
70 2008/Jun/30 It’s oh so quiet
69 2008/Jun/24 Rapid Test Case Creation
68 2008/Jun/23 Testing body image
67 2008/Jun/23 Telephone Etiquette
66 2008/Jun/20 Charity Defect – SmartMovie
65 2008/Jun/19 Times change
64 2008/Jun/17 Ecoclouds Addendum
63 2008/Jun/16 Energy Efficient Operating Systems
62 2008/Jun/15 Beginnings and Endings
61 2008/Jun/14 No that hasn’t changed
60 2008/Jun/13 Blogger migration addendum
59 2008/Jun/12 RSS issues moving from blogger
58 2008/Jun/12 Defensive Programming
57 2008/Jun/05 What would you have done?
56 2008/Jun/05 Melbourne
55 2008/Jun/04 Hello, Goodbye
54 2008/Jun/04 Blogger Defects
53 2008/Jun/04 Why I am making defects public
52 2008/Jun/03 Fifty!
51 2008/Jun/02 Advertising @ the French Open
50 2008/May/30 Hark, where are thou keys?
49 2008/May/29 Attachments and Requirements in QualityCenter with C#
48 2008/May/28 Handling Post failure with QC Requirements in C#
47 2008/May/27 …distributedlife…. coming soon
46 2008/May/27 Creating a Quality Center requirement using C#
45 2008/May/26 Leveraging MSVC’s output window
44 2008/May/25 The potential defect
43 2008/May/25 Reporting Defects in Proprietary Software
42 2008/May/23 It was so easy I thought I was kidding myself
41 2008/May/20 Obfuscating Inflation
40 2008/May/19 Visual Studio Tips
39 2008/May/18 Winamp and FLV
38 2008/May/15 Late Copy Instantiation – Addendum
37 2008/May/15 The value of hyphens
36 2008/May/13 Coding Tip #3 – Late Call by Value Instantiation (C++)
35 2008/May/12 Coding Tip #2 – First Run Tracing
34 2008/May/11 Life Tip #1 – Birthday Candles
33 2008/May/11 Coding Tip #1 – Object Identifiers
32 2008/May/11 Testing Tip #1 – Boundary testing business objects
31 2008/May/10 Automated deployment – Why it is a good idea
30 2008/May/07 Dalmore – 12yo
29 2008/May/05 NIN – This one’s on him.
28 2008/May/04 Lol
27 2008/Apr/29 Controlling Testing Environments
26 2008/Apr/23 If the TV fits…
25 2008/Apr/23 Blogger’s Remorse
24 2008/Apr/22 Bug: Facebook Advertising Application
23 2008/Apr/22 Usability: What is the ideal date control?
22 2008/Apr/18 Usability Case Study: Facebook Advertising
21 2008/Apr/17 The sweetest thing
20 2008/Apr/17 Please Sir, Can I have some more?
19 2008/Apr/07 QuickTest : Applying major changes to a repository
18 2008/Apr/07 QuickTest and CruiseControl for Continuous Integration
17 2008/Apr/07 QuickTest and TeamBuild for Continuous Integration
16 2008/Apr/07 It was funny then and is just as funny now
15 2008/Apr/06 The meaning of life is… bug fixing?
14 2008/Mar/29 defect in microsoft stl queue documentation
13 2008/Mar/17 Cold Beer
12 2008/Mar/14 Bloggerscript
11 2008/Mar/08 Crisps
10 2008/Mar/06 Project Development Iterations
9 2008/Feb/29 QuickTest Pro and Continuous Integration
8 2008/Feb/28 Testing Documentation
7 2008/Feb/27 An unusual bug i'm confuzzled
6 2008/Feb/27 Who says you can’t have good cheap fun? how to gamble for five hours and not lose a penny
5 2008/Feb/15 Default Parameters and how to waste time debugging your application
4 2008/Feb/03 Test Case Structure write more tests in less time
3 2008/Jan/14 Testing SOA: Service dependencies and their impacts on testing managing service dependencies during dev & test
2 2008/Jan/10 Testing SOA – an introduction an overview of the issue of who should be testing services
1 2008/Jan/09 1st! we all gotta start somewhere