Been a while, but I'm not done yet..
It's been a while - can't believe it's been a whole month!!
Anyways, I'll make sure to come back to this with a little more detail, but I've been very busy:
Major release being done, we're in our testing cycle and woohoo for automating tests - even if they're only UI tests. We're moving from Selenium to Watir for our UI testing. Primarily because Selenium's requirement to be install on the web server of the app under test is... cumbersome in our environment.
Our development team still doesn't work with a BugTracking tool/standard (unreal, I know). Just one full day of trying to manage bugs with excel and email and I made a decision. I took the chance to play with Rails (Ruby on Rails) to put together a bug tracker. Great experience: built it to work within an evening with very few features at first - added comment, status updates and rudimentary workflow - over the next 2 days - cool!
Cool stuff I've found since last post:
Watir: Scott Hanselman is doing more with Watir with a recorder for Ruby based Watir - I was hoping that someone would continue the work but unfortunately it seems not. Here's still hoping..
Management: Added the following to my bloglist: Manager Tools (www.manager-tools.com) - Great new management podcast blog, the first 4 'casts are amazing and include discussions on setting and running one-on-ones with your direct reports, advice on advancing your technical management carreer, and giving effective feedback. Looking forward to more as they go.
Glen Alleman's Herding Cats (herdingcats.typepad.com/my_weblog)
Coding Stuff: Brian Button's MSDN wedcast on refactoring. Great intro to refactoring.
more to come - a little sooner that an month.
Anyways, I'll make sure to come back to this with a little more detail, but I've been very busy:
Major release being done, we're in our testing cycle and woohoo for automating tests - even if they're only UI tests. We're moving from Selenium to Watir for our UI testing. Primarily because Selenium's requirement to be install on the web server of the app under test is... cumbersome in our environment.
Our development team still doesn't work with a BugTracking tool/standard (unreal, I know). Just one full day of trying to manage bugs with excel and email and I made a decision. I took the chance to play with Rails (Ruby on Rails) to put together a bug tracker. Great experience: built it to work within an evening with very few features at first - added comment, status updates and rudimentary workflow - over the next 2 days - cool!
Cool stuff I've found since last post:
Watir: Scott Hanselman is doing more with Watir with a recorder for Ruby based Watir - I was hoping that someone would continue the work but unfortunately it seems not. Here's still hoping..
Management: Added the following to my bloglist: Manager Tools (www.manager-tools.com) - Great new management podcast blog, the first 4 'casts are amazing and include discussions on setting and running one-on-ones with your direct reports, advice on advancing your technical management carreer, and giving effective feedback. Looking forward to more as they go.
Glen Alleman's Herding Cats (herdingcats.typepad.com/my_weblog)
Coding Stuff: Brian Button's MSDN wedcast on refactoring. Great intro to refactoring.
more to come - a little sooner that an month.
posted by Tony Semana at 7:22 PM
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