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 [...]
Everything needs maintenance. We do, machines do, transportation vehicles do, and software solutions do. Everything. it's just that no one likes to do it. Take yachts and boats for example - to get them to operate regularly and for many years, they need constant maintenance. There are many types of work that need to [...]
The time for you to buy a boat has come. You've been sailing a long time on other people's boats, friends or rented, and you figure that the time you spend on the sea, and the importance (for you) makes is reasonable that you own one. Or, you have an old and out-dated boat, [...]
Every year there’s that time when there’s no wind at all. Not even something you could attempt sailing with. Very frustrating for the skipper, but also for the crew, and all those who want to sail, learn more and enjoy the sea and the sailing itself. Every morning it is the same forecast on [...]
I’m sure there’s someone out there that loves to wash, dry, iron and fold their clothes. There must be. But for most of us this isn’t the case. And yet, we do it. Since we don’t like to do them, we try to handle these chores the best way we can, minimizing our direct involvement. [...]
The proliferation of AI-based systems, and specifically decision-making systems, constantly raises the question of whether these systems can replace the manual testing process, and the testers. The answer, as of today, is no. Automation Testing The part that automation testing is taking from the overall testing process, is growing for years now. Much effort is [...]
For a very long time, many years now, we were all told that the later in the process a bug is found and fixed - the more it costs. This was written in hundreds of articles, shown in charts, and lectured in seminars. It became the obvious truth. It probably was seriously first discussed [...]
I’m sure you are familiar with the term Technical debt. We’re all familiar with the ever going debates when designing and programming software - should we do it the ‘right (and long, expensive) way’ or maybe we should take the easier, faster road, which will get us quickly to a working new feature/product but also [...]
My running mate and myself went out, the other day, for a routine run. An early morning run, 10 km in a steady and not-too-fast pace. All was fine, and towards the last 2 km, my friend suggested that since we are 'feeling great', as he put it, it's an opportunity to add 2-3 km [...]
In our Sailing with Testers series of posts, we’ve talked about how to choose the relevant items from the long pre-sailing check-list, and the similarities to selecting the right tests to run, out of the full repository. We then explored the different preparations one can consider, in order to be ready for possible problems and [...]
