Why Sailing and Software Testing are much more Similar than you Think The other day I was sailing the sea. It was a calm early summer day, but there were still some waves. The sun was shining, and it was about +20 degrees Celsius (about 70 Fahrenheit). It felt like [...]
Rose Island In 1968, the Italian engineer Giorgio Rosa decided to get away from everything, especially bureaucracy, and what he saw as too many rules and regulations. He built a platform in the Adriatic Sea, 11 kilometers (6.8 mi) off the coast of the province of Rimini, Italy, and moved to live on it, even [...]
Single-handed sailing Solo sailing isn’t easy. It’s usually done with a small sailing boat or yacht rather than a large one. Not many do it, for various reasons. First, many of us prefer company, to share the joy of sailing with. Second, as mentioned, it isn’t easy. In some places, you can’t sail on [...]
The perfect storm In our Sailing with testers posts series, we've talked about the preparation of a boat for different sailing plans and different weather conditions. But when sailing, there's always also a chance for a storm. Boats, yachts, can ride through storms. With the right equipment and following the right procedures, the skipper can [...]
You're not alone, even when sailing Any sailor, and skipper, knows the sailing rules. Unlike what many people think, there are "driving" rules in the sea, the same as on the road. Who has right of way, and when. If both are sailing boats, if one is a motorboat, the direction they are facing, [...]
World Crisis Covid19, the coronavirus, is a major crisis with far-reaching consequences. It is not yet known how it will develop, how soon it will be contained, if and when there will be a vaccine. We assume - and hope - things will get better sometime soon. But assuming is not enough in this [...]
Everybody Loves Raymond Especially since he’s the only one in the team who knows something about automation software testing… Isn’t that the case? There’s that only one person, who knows something about the one thing the whole group wants - how to automate more of their manual tests. And that’s never enough of course. [...]
Do it, and do it now Software development projects, applications of all kinds, are nowadays all about fast, fast, fast. Unlike the old days (not so many years ago…) there are less and less software solutions and tools that are not updated often - and often can even mean many times a day. The [...]
Not Sailing At All As we’ve posted last month, times are challenging. Who thought we wouldn't be able to sail for such a long time? When we wrote about bad sea conditions, preventing us from sailing, and proposed alternatives, we were thinking more like 1-3 days. Now, in many countries around the world, it [...]
All businesses need to service their customers. Software testing tool vendors are no exception. The difference is that the customers in this (our) case, are testers - those whose profession is to improve software, and in the process, find bugs and issues. This can hurt sometimes :-) However, as we have written in a few [...]
