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- A couple new #Jolla tips in my blog post "A Little Help with Jolla". Check it out if you haven't done so already: http://t.co/SKT2NL0peb - posted on 22/01/2014
- ...without even trying if the system would accept longer messages (it does, the counter is more of a recommendation than an absolute limit). - posted on 21/01/2014
- Ah, automatic assumptions. Counter on a page says "x characters left" in a comment field and people complain about the length restriction... - posted on 21/01/2014
- Anyone read the book "Remedial Genius: Think and Learn Like a Genius with the Five Principles of Knowledge". If yes, what did you think? - posted on 05/06/2013
- How a tester might have been able to help prevent this with mere curiosity... "Neverwinter's economy just crashed": http://t.co/b1fJQxMAUM - posted on 20/05/2013
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Author Archives: Petteri Lyytinen
A Little Help with Jolla
Table of Contents: Introduction Enable Developer Mode Extend battery life by disabling the buggy NFC detection Share your Jolla Internet connection Fix the broken “From:” field in outgoing emails Add your own shortcuts to FingerTerm Force FingerTerm to source .bashrc … Continue reading
An Object Is What the Object Does – Or Is It?
It’s been a while since my last blog post and earlier today I came across a post that started a thought process I just had to write down. This post is based on the blog entry titled ““Testing vs Checking” … Continue reading
Posted in colleagues, complaints, ideas and suggestions
Tagged criticism, James Bach, Michael Bolton, testing
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Standards and Best Practices in Testing
This is my response to two closely related texts written by James Christie. The first one is James’ article Do standards keep testers in the kindergarten? and the second one is James’ post titled ISO 29119 the new international software … Continue reading
Posted in colleagues, ideas and suggestions, publications
Tagged agile, best practices, James Christie, learning, standards, testing
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Physics, Testing and Academia
The Introduction I just read the Science Daily article: Quantum Physicists Show a Small Amount of Randomness Can Be Amplified Without Limit and, while reading, it occurred to me that quantum physics seems a bit like the context-driven approach to … Continue reading
Posted in complaints, ideas and suggestions
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Schools of (pro)testing
I have been discussing Cem Kaner’s announcement and the separation between the founders of the context-driven school of testing with some people, most of whom proclaim themselves as context-driven (myself included). This post was inspired by Cem’s response to the … Continue reading
Posted in colleagues, complaints
Tagged cem kaner, context-driven testing, schools of testing
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Of Algorithms and Heuristics
It occurred to me, while reading James Bach’s blog post Exploratory Testing is not “Experienced-Based” Testing, that I wasn’t 100% sure I understood the difference between an algorithm and a heuristic. I did have a general idea but that wasn’t … Continue reading
Posted in colleagues, exploratory testing, self-education
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ParkCalc done differently
The third testing dojo was organized on Tuesday, May 31st in Helsinki. It was also the last testing dojo before summer break. We will be back in August! In the earlier testing dojos the format was really simple: Pairwise exploratory … Continue reading
Tea-time with Testers
New software testing ezine The fourth issue of a new software testing ezine called “Tea-time with Testers” was released earlier this week. It is an interesting ezine – especially in that only a total of four issues have been published … Continue reading
Posted in ideas and suggestions, publications
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Why it is good to cut some slack
Lazy, lazy Little over a year ago, I had a slow day at work. There was not much to do and even the few tasks I had were not of high priority. I was a bit bored since it was … Continue reading
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Testing Dojo, Helsinki, Nov 11th
UPDATE Dec 9th Unfortunately I had to reschedule the testing dojo due to a work situation. Updated infos with a link to registration below: The next testing dojo will be organized on Wednesday, December 15th, at 18:00-21:00 (with time for … Continue reading
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