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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 25, 20194 min read


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 21, 20194 min read


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 16, 20192 min read


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
Jan 4, 20195 min read


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
Dec 6, 20185 min read


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
Nov 23, 20186 min read


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
Sep 21, 20184 min read


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 18, 20184 min read


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
Jul 5, 20183 min read


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
Jun 7, 20184 min read


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 22, 20184 min read


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
Mar 7, 20184 min read


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 20, 20183 min read


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
Feb 7, 20183 min read


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 30, 20183 min read


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...
Craig Risi
Jan 3, 20184 min read


Preparing for the Load
During this last week, we saw many South African sites and retailers struggle to deal with the increased load experienced on Black...
Craig Risi
Nov 30, 20175 min read


Writing Effective Unit Tests
I know when it comes to my articles I can focus much of test automation effort on building end-to-end and solution-oriented test...
Craig Risi
Nov 23, 20174 min read


Getting to the Root of the Problem
One of the reasons why many software development companies end up spending so much effort and money on fixing or supporting their...
Craig Risi
Nov 13, 20174 min read


Building a Performance Ready Automation Framework
Performance testing is an important part of our product development life-cycle as we need to make sure whatever software we are building...
Craig Risi
Oct 24, 20175 min read
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