Practise
Baseball great Pete Rose was once asked what part of his game preparation set him apart from other players. His response was that he practiced much different than other players. He observed that good hitters tended to practice hitting more than other elements of their game. Good outfielders liked to have fly balls hit to them for long periods so they could hone their abilities taking fungos off the wall. He viewed this as flawed because these were the skills these players were already good at....
Read MorePeople Aren’t Resistant To Change…
I was thinking today of a seminar I attended several years ago by Tim Daniels of Knoll and Associates. It was really exceptional and I couldn’t remember if I blogged about it or not. As it happens, I did (you can read about it here) but this post was pretty light on detail and I thought I would expand on one of the more interesting tidbits I took from that seminar. Early on, Mr. Daniels asked the audience to raise their hands if they believed, in general, that people are resistant to...
Read MoreHow Much Info Does One Need To Make A Judgement or Decision?
It’s been said that one of the main differences between entrepreneurs and corporate managers is that the former are much more comfortable making decisions with relatively fewer facts than are the latter. I’m one who is more comfortable making decisions or forming judgments with less information than more. I do find it frustrating sometimes that corporate environments require more facts than I believe are necessary to justify decisions or courses of action. I think one of the drivers...
Read MoreSoftware Test Automation
Of the three testing books I read over the past few months, this one was the one that gave me the best overview of test automation as a discipline of its own. What was interesting to me is that the book was written some time ago (1999) and in some places it feels “old”. However, the authors have spent considerable time in this area and are very articulate about the principles that govern automation and these principles seem to me to still apply today based on projects I...
Read More.NET Test Automation Recipes
This book is for developers. It is well named because it’s a cookbook of code that illustrates how to test using various different automation approaches. I like the variety of different coding examples it showed and how widely the test automation approaches vary across these different types of code. The code samples are easy to try out and while you may only find a handful that help you on any given project, I suspect for the developer who is new to .net and is looking to learn a bit...
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