Archive for the 'Testing' Category

Tool Mismatch

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

When I was just starting my way as a software developer I worked in a team writing simulators and other tools for testing engineers. Most of the tools I wrote were 100% my creation. I designed them, I wrote them, and I provided support for them. This gave me a chance to control almost every […]

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Sleeping With The “Enemy”

Friday, October 20th, 2006

What do police officers, vultures, hunters, guards, predators, and cleaning people, have in common? And what they are all doing in my blog?

[Warning: not too good metaphor ahead] When I was a teenager, I thought all teachers have one purpose in life: to hunt me! And guess what, all my friends felt pretty much the […]

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