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- The testers urge to press all the buttons, even the ones they shouldn't
- Obsessive Wattage Disorder
- PDD (Panic Driven Development)
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Obsessive Wattage Disorder
It’s just a number. I check it four hundred times a day regardless.Continue reading on The Grand Game of Software Engineering »
I built a tool to catch empty scans read as passes, and shipped it with an empty scan read as a pass
The tool has a self-test. It plants two positive fixtures that must be found and four negative fixtures that must stay quiet. Then it prints a control line, and you read the real n...
Generating test cases is the easy part
There is a ceiling on your test coverage and it is not technical. Running tests has been a solved problem for a long time. Runners are fast, parallelism is cheap, CI is a commodit...
Thinking about tests: assertions and matchers
Originally appeared on zverok's space.Why some of us are still bothered about the way we write tests and what the “matcher” concept has to do with it. During most of my Ruby caree...
A Tester's Survival Guide to Developers [Testμ 2026]
Wessel Braakman of Bouvet on five developer types every tester meets, what each one needs from a bug report, and the encounters that taught him the difference.
Testing LLM Responses You Cannot Predict [Testμ 2026]
Gil Zilberfeld of TestinGil on golden data sets, scorecards and sanity tests, and why fixing a bug inside a prompt is only the start of fixing it.
More Tests, More Confidence? Test Suites Are Investment Portfolios
Every test suite starts as an asset. The first hundred tests are almost universally useful. They cover the system's core behaviors, and they catch regressions. They give the team j...
Data-Driven Testing Patterns to Keep Your Suite Clean at Scale
Green Unit Tests Are a Comfort Blanket
My converter has a test suite. It was green. Every example I could think of went in, the right pytest file came out, and I shipped it to PyPI as 1.0. Weeks later it sits there mark...
Ranking Test Suites by What They Caught [Testμ 2026]
Partha Sarathi Samal of Paramount on replaying 18 months of incidents against 4,200 tests, the proven, duplicate and unproven verdicts, and their limits.
Test Data Types A Mental Model for Automation using playwright at Scale
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