Craig Risi
What is Good Enough?
Good enough. That catch-phrase that has been around since teams started taking their code into production and wondering if it’s good...
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A personal blog addressing software quality across all aspects of software development, testing, design, and people.
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Craig Risi
- Mar 1, 2019
- 8 min
Which Software Architecture is right for you
As a software architect, it’s natural to focus on the big picture of how a system, or combination of software systems are structured and...
Craig Risi
- Feb 15, 2019
- 10 min
Coding for Speed – Part 3 - Optimizing your code
Warning: If you were wondering why I took a break in between part 2 and 3 of this series, its because this one is really long. Hopefully...
Craig Risi
- Jan 31, 2019
- 4 min
Coding for Speed – Part 2 - Challenges to code optimisation
Once you’re measuring the right thing, it will be a lot easier to tell which improvements are worthwhile. Nonetheless, it’s worth it to...
Craig Risi
- Jan 25, 2019
- 4 min
Coding for Speed - Part 1 - Measuring how fast you're going
Today I want to talk about writing code for speed. Much like writing easily laid out and readable code, writing code that can execute...
Craig Risi
- Jan 21, 2019
- 4 min
Guidelines to writing effective unit tests
It's one thing knowing why you should focus on your unit testing strategy and what ot unit tests, but none of that is helpful if you...
Craig Risi
- Jan 16, 2019
- 2 min
What should be unit tested?
Testers typically like to test everything when the code arrives in their environments. However, when there is confidence that the code is...
Craig Risi
- Jan 4, 2019
- 5 min
Writing Code you can Read
When you decide to get into the software development space you anticipate that the majority of your day will be spent sitting at your...
Craig Risi
- Dec 6, 2018
- 5 min
Spare Change? Dealing with change management
In the ideal world, it would be easy to see where our lives were headed so that we could plan accordingly and ensure that we are...
Craig Risi
- Nov 23, 2018
- 6 min
Building for Scale
One of the biggest gaps which I feel is holding many South African companies back in the tech space is a lack of understand in how to...
Craig Risi
- Sep 21, 2018
- 4 min
The Cost of Poor Quality Software
It was reported in 2015, that in the US alone that more than 15 bugs per 1000 lines of code was introduced to customers. And if that...
Craig Risi
- Jul 18, 2018
- 4 min
Managing your critical path
Testing everything and having absolute confidence is something testers know all too well is not going to happen. While we like to do our...
Craig Risi
- Jul 5, 2018
- 3 min
Less is more when it comes to CI quality
It’s been a while since I’ve last posted an article because I spent the past few weeks focusing on launching another new initiative. That...
Craig Risi
- Jun 7, 2018
- 4 min
Moving from monolith to microservices
Many large companies have little appetite for risk and innovation and as a result are hamstrung by their old, monolithic systems which...
Craig Risi
- Mar 22, 2018
- 4 min
A little governance is a good thing
When it comes to strategies for working with many different agile development teams, there are often two chains of thought – full...
Craig Risi
- Mar 7, 2018
- 4 min
Why Building Software is like running a marathon
For those that know me personally, they will know that along with software development and writing, one of my other big passions is...
Craig Risi
- Feb 20, 2018
- 3 min
Dealing with your debt problem
We can spend an incredible amount of time on the topic of financial debt and how to manage it correctly or even better yet, avoid it...
Craig Risi
- Feb 7, 2018
- 3 min
Measuring Quality in an Agile Environment - Part 2
For part two of my Agile metrics section (you can read part 1 here), I want to focus on metrics that are testing specific. These are a...
Craig Risi
- Jan 30, 2018
- 3 min
Measuring Quality in an Agile Environment - Part 1
I have written before about how it’s important that we don’t rely on metrics exclusively to make decisions, but rather use the data in...
Craig Risi
- Jan 3, 2018
- 4 min
Why Test Automation Fails
While almost all software companies see the need for automation and promote it in their strategies, few are actually getting it right in...
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