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Code Coverage: Unreachable Code and Hard to Reach Code

Friday, August 27, 2010

Well, I am back from a sailing excursion to the San Juan Islands. I wanted to go to the Gulf Islands, but considering an unexpected ordeal with a kidney stone just before taking off on the trip I decided it might be better to be a bit closer…just in case. The weather was great, [...]

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Code Coverage: Finding missing tests

Sunday, August 22, 2010

[NOTE: This was written last week but due to a glitch did not get automatically posted before I left on a boat trip where I disconnected from the world. How refreshing…but more about that later.]
Well, we got a buy in the quarter final play-offs, and we won our semi-final game against the Sockeyes (2 [...]

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Code Coverage: Did we run the right tests?

Monday, August 9, 2010

It has been awhile since my last post, and I apologize for the few folks who follow my rants. Over the last few months I have been busy working on my boat (she is almost 30 years old now and needs some major refitting). Since starting to play hockey again I have been spending a [...]

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Refactoring for Testability

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

 

One of my hobbies is shooting CMP matches and long range precision shooting. Besides lots of practice perfecting the techniques a big part of precision shooting depends on the ammunition and studying the ballistic patterns of various loads. All precision shooters custom load their ammunition and it is not as simple as simply reading a [...]

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Do Testers Do Code Reviews?

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Originally Published Tuesday, March 11, 2008
This weekend on the flight from Seattle to Ireland I finally got to catch up on some reading. One of the books I grabbed off the shelf that I hadn’t gotten around to reading yet was Best Kept Secrets of Peer Code Review by Jason Cohen. The book is 160 [...]

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The Code Coverage Metric is Inversely Proportional to the Criticality of the Information It Provides.

Friday, November 13, 2009

One of the best aspects of my current role is the opportunity to interact with so many talented, highly skilled, and extremely intelligent testers at Microsoft and other companies around the world. Last week I was teaching a new group of SDETs at Microsoft, and during our discussion of code coverage (the metric) and code [...]

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