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Bug’s survival strategy

 

Astronomy for developers

 

AI and a confused elevator

A collegue recently received a letter from the estate agent, stating that several people reported a malfunction of the new elevator. The reason as it turned out after an in depth-analysis: the doors were blocked by people moving into the building while…

Software made on Earth

This is a remake of my original cartoon which was published at SDTimes, N.Y. in their newsletter as of April 1, 2008

Testing under the Hood

 Even
when a particular test passed at first glance, there might still be
things going wrong. You may just not have noticed it, because the User
Interface stays quiet; at least for the moment.
Things can go wrong in a black box long after you …

Revise the Test Report

I thought, I’d published this cartoon in 2020 already, but couldn’t find it, so I am doing it now, with a 3 years delay…=;O) 

Mutation Testing and why we don’t need it

 

Downbeat Quality Freak Concerns

 

License Expired

 

Lindy’s Law in Test Automation

by T. J. Zelger, March 12, 2023 When I developed my first “robot” 20 years ago with the goal to automatically test the software so that my team didn’t have to do the same manual tests every day, there were at most a handful of product…