10.20.06
Posted in Self Education at 9:52 am by Željko Filipin
I noticed that I am writing mostly about tools that I use. Well, I guess it makes sense. I think that tools make you efficient. Not only tools for testing, but also good e-mail client, good feed reader…
Also, I am new to testing. I am tester just over two years. So, although I do have some experience, I do not have a lot of experience. I guess my posts can be of some help to people that are starting with testing. Others might find my thoughts funny, in the best case. Just give me a year or six and you will read some interesting stuff here.
I have started blogging about a year ago (in Croatian). Do not even go there. I will try to translate interesting posts and post them here. But, beeing the only tester that speaks Croatian did not help by blog. I lost interest in writing because I felt nobody was reading. I like to write, and I do think that I have something to say. But writing for myself was just not enough motivation.
Then I joined testingReflections (in English). But I did not like the blogging software there. (I have already moved here almost all posts from testingReflections.)
Finally I found WordPress blogging software, bought a domain, a friend of mine had some hosting he was currently not using, and here I am.
Today I was pleasantly surprised when I saw that Brent Strange pointed to my blog. Thanks Bret. Blogging takes time, but I think it makes sense if it is “adding value”. Although it never crossed my mind that Ruby and Watir are “the dark side”. 
Why this title? I want to write about lots of interesting things, but I do have to do some real work. By the way, Bill Watterson said “There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.” (via Gmail Web Clips).
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10.19.06
Posted in Software at 10:23 pm by Željko Filipin
I have blogged already about Google Reader. I was using Bloglines, but I was not entirely happy with it. I heard that Google Reader has been significantly updated, so I decided to try it. After a day or two, I switched completely to Google Reader. I just love how it looks like e-mail client.
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10.16.06
Posted in Ruby at 1:07 pm by Željko Filipin
New version of my favourite Ruby IDE is available. More information here.
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10.12.06
Posted in E-mail at 9:09 pm by Željko Filipin
Interesting question appeared today at wtr-general mailing list.
my application has sent an email to outlook. i want watir to open outlook, open the mail and get the mail data like from text and so on.
I also have to test my application to see if it sends correct e-mails. So I knew the answer.
You do not have to open Outlook to see your mail. You can read you e-mail from ruby.
- receive e-mail - Net::POP3
- send e-mail - Net::SMTP
- create (before sending) and parse e-mail (from file, after receiving) - TMail
Net::POP3 and Net::SMTP are included in Ruby. TMail needs installation. I had a problem with TMail installation, and I contacted author. He recommended this procedure, and now it works.
ruby setup.rb config --without-ext
ruby setup.rb setup
ruby setup.rb install
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10.05.06
Posted in Humour at 10:33 am by Željko Filipin
My developer just told me a joke. He said it is an old one, but I have never heard it before.
Software is like a sausage. You lose appetite when you see how it is made.
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Posted in Testing at 9:45 am by Željko Filipin
A few weeks ago, my developer resolved a case that was opened for two years and one day. It was minor bug (priority 4), but that does not matter. Our application has changed so much in that two years that, of course, it was not reproducible. But that does not matter, either.
What matters is - that bug was open for over a two years.
At that time, I just have read Joel Spolsky’s The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code. There is question: “Do you fix bugs before writing new code?” No. To be honest, we did not have a feature freeze for a while.
Isn’t it demotivating to know that bug that you have reported would not be looked at for a while. When will it be resolved? Better not to think about it. I pointed that to my developer, and he promised that he would do his best.
Since then, he was closing many bugs. Just this morning, he said that he has resolved all bugs with priorities 1, 2 and 3 (showstopper, critical and major). I immediately checked our bug tracking software (all testers know that developers cannot be trusted :)). Then, I have built the latest version of our application and verified that all bugs are resolved.
There are still over one hundred open bugs, but they are all minor and trivial (priorities 4 and 5). I think that we did not have this situation since I started working here. Over two years.
I have a strange feeling now. I am so motivated to find new bugs. I have noticed some strange behaviour in our application, but I did not have time to look into it. Until know.
There is always one more bug*.
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10.02.06
Posted in Humour at 9:31 am by Željko Filipin
Every week a funny story about testing or software development. Enjoy.
http://www.bugbash.net/ by Hans Bjordahl.
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