I know you may be thinking, “OK, you grabbed my attention with that headline, but what do ping pong tables, free craft beer on Fridays and bringing your dog to work have to do with corporate culture?” Not much actually. I admit to baiting you by highlighting some of the more sensational corporate perks I… Read more »
Like many of us, my email inbox is peppered with messages from software vendors who would like to “let me in” on an opportunity to purchase their product. These are not spam, necessarily. They come to me because some time ago, when I was on the hunt for a software testing tool, I hastily provided… Read more »
Duluth, Minn., March 13, 2017 – Saturn Systems, a Duluth-based software engineering firm, has been named to the 2017 list of 100 Best Companies to Work For by Minnesota Business Magazine. This marks the company’s third consecutive year on the list. “Our success to date can be attributed to the outstanding quality of our staff,” said Jon Anderson, Director of… Read more »
Are you considering outsourcing for the development or support of a significant piece of software or have you in the past? Selecting the right partner is critical, but how do you know if you are asking the right questions? There are a number of considerations, some short term, some longer term that can affect the… Read more »
In my previous post, Evolving Beyond the Code Coverage Percentage Debate, Part 1 of 2, I recounted the “hypothetical” but all too familiar horrors of the great code coverage debate. I proposed that despite our best intentions in carrying on that debate, its caused us to become unfortunately fixated on code coverage instead of the… Read more »
Lately, I’ve been listening to Hugh Laurie’s pair of piano-driven blues albums “Let them Talk” and “Didn’t it Rain”. I find Laurie’s music both musically pleasing and utterly fascinating. “Fascinating” because, while I listen to his charming and expertly delivered take on some blues classics, I can’t stop thinking, “This isn’t even this guy’s day… Read more »
Last year we lost a good project contract three weeks into the effort. It’s possible it could have been avoided, but perhaps it was inevitable. The project, a web-based rewrite of a successful desktop product with a very large feature set, was right up our alley. Straightforward, right? Migrate the feature set in phases while simplifying and improving… Read more »
Long before plastic surgery, the invention of the knife began changing the look of the human face. Recently, anthropologists discovered that the shape of human faces were greatly impacted when we developed the ability to cut meat with a knife. Before this invention, early humans would have to chew a great deal in order to swallow the… Read more »
What is Code Coverage? According to Wikipedia, code coverage (a.k.a. test coverage), is defined as “a measure used to describe the degree to which the source code of a program is tested by a particular test suite”. A less precise explanation in layman’s terms would be to say it’s the percentage of source code exercised by… Read more »
Managing a software development team is akin to herding cats. Does this sound familiar? Have you been involved in projects as a stakeholder or project manager where you have a constant uneasy feeling the project is not on the right track? No other engineering discipline allows team members to so easily stray from the planned course at… Read more »
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