Bill Gates has become a powerful influence on publishing. An endorsement from the philanthropist and Microsoft cofounder can cause tangible sales spikes, reminiscent of the golden ticket that once came with being picked for Oprah's book club. So just what does Gates read? Quartz manually compiled all 186 of the books recommended on his blog,...
If you wanted to hand a book over to a new tester, to help them get to grips with the world of testing, what topics would you expect or like to see in it?
Agile Testers are often known as Quality Analysts (QA), Software Engineers in Test, Test Engineers and QA Leads, among other variances. I've been working as an Agile QA for a while and I would like to share my point of view about how QAs work in an agile team. In this article, I will use the term QA to represent an "Agile Tester". Most people, even in agile teams, treat QAs as a sub-role or a separate role in the team. I believe this is an outdated conception. The difference between a QA and a Dev lies in the mindset.
Over the last several years we’ve seen a whole range of ideas regarding the architecture of systems. These include: Hexagonal Architecture (a.k.a. Ports and Adapters) by Alistair Cockburn and adopted by Steve Freeman, and Nat...
I recently discovered the high-performance Pandas library written in Python while performing data munging in a machine learning project. Using simple …
Introduction of a basic pattern for developing a robust road map for any organization using an example of the adoption of a Master Data Management initiative.