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Why Don’t You Fucking Retire Already?
by James A. Whittaker
‘You’re retired?’ It’s a refrain I often experience when I greet customers at one of my bars. They recognize me from my years in tech and are generally surprised to have me pour their beer or deliver their meal. Beyond the surprise, the question is tinged with disbelief and, I fancy, some disapproval. I like to assume that it is because I am relatively young but lately I have
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“As test documentation goes, test plans have the briefest actual lifespan of any test artifact. Early in a project, there is a push to write a test plan [...]. Indeed, there is often an insistence among project managers that a test plan must exist and that writing it is a milestone of some importance. But, once such a plan is written, it is often hard to get any of those same managers to take reviewing and updating it seriously. The test plan becomes a beloved stuffed animal in the hands of a distracted child. We want it to be there at all times. We drag it around from place to place without ever giving it any real attention. We only scream when it gets taken away.”
― How Google Tests Software
― How Google Tests Software
“There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.” —Alan J. Perlis”
― Exploratory Software Testing: Tips, Tricks, Tours, and Techniques to Guide Test Design
― Exploratory Software Testing: Tips, Tricks, Tours, and Techniques to Guide Test Design
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