C# Test using OpenTelemetry traces in Asp.Net Taking advantage of our OpenTelemetry tracing to easily test behavior that is otherwise very hard to observe
Engineering Designing for Testability The same factors that make your software hard to test will also make it hard to maintain. By adding tests, you can find and fix those things, and so the simple fact of having tests will make your software projects more successful.
C# Maybe don't use StringBuilder So, should you use StringBuilder? Yes, sometimes. It depends on what your data is like, and what you're optimizing for.
Testing Unit Testing: How do I even? It hopefully seems obvious that you should test your software. And in particular that you should unit test your software. But, why? And, how? For some reason no one seems to teach this.
Process Featured Measuring Risk A while back, I was in a planning meeting where a whole development organization was trying to squeeze a huge and non-negotiable volume of work into a predetermined and non-negotiable release schedule. It was basically the antithesis of everything I ever advocate for. I was mostly trying not to just
Process Featured Software Engineer I am a software engineer. What I'm not is a programmer, or a developer, or a coder, or a ninja. Simply writing code is the easiest part of developing software. Anyone can write a competent for loop given a day or two of training. The difference between that
Process A Bug's Life I've written before about useful metrics for software development organizations, and it's past time for another. The metric I'm proposing now, I call "A Bug's Life". Because who doesn't like Pixar? And it's descriptive. What is
Projects Require-with Require-with is a project I've recently been working on. The main purpose of the module is to enable simple dependency injection in Node.js. Dependency injection can be great for a number of purposes. The two that come most immediately to mind are testing, and experimentation. Dependency injection
Process Software development metrics Software development is a skill. And for the moment, I mean that in an institutional sense. It's a skill the organization has. It's something that an organization can be good at. And it's something that an organization can become better at, with practice. All
Testing Testing needs a better vocabulary If you build or test software, you've almost certainly seen some variant of the Test Pyramid. The basic concept it's trying to communicate is sound, and that is: focus your testing resources on the kinds of tests that provide the most value. And specifically that means
Testing Software Engineer in Test Update: I'm actually a Sofware Engineer now. But everything else holds up. I'm a software engineer, working mostly to support testing other software. I don't work at Google, but if I did, my job title would most likely be Software Engineer in Test (SET)
