Tag Archives: perl

testing tangible assets

What do I mean by tangible assests?
Well, in the case of a web app, one of the most distinctive tangible assets is your domain name. How often have you heard of a company having trouble because their domain name didn’t get renewed in time, taken over by someone nasty or their registrar messed up?
One suggestion [...]

test plan numbers

So I’m briefly going to talk about test plan numbers here, mainly in response to mst’s blog post, where he expresses his opinion that test plan numbers are bad. I happen to disagree with him in some respects and agree with him in others (we’ve also discussed on IRC briefly).
Matt’s verdict is that test plan [...]

Making perl tests more readable

How many times have you gone through a test script from an outside project, or an older project and read through the source and found that you couldn’t discern the meaning of the test? For me it’s been plenty of times and especially so with test automation using things like selenium. This is part of [...]

internet meme no. 1

I haven’t really been tagged for any of these internet memes, but Jen had an open challenge on her recent one, so I thought why not. The answers below are about Jo and I.
What are your middle names?
Mine is David and Johanna’s is Elizabeth. The whole “two middle names” thing seems pretty popular here in [...]