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Why Testers Should Focus on Unit Tests
Testing has changed from a discipline that was largely manual and isolated from the rest of the development, to one that is highly...
Craig Risi
Jan 11, 20194 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


Progress vs Perfection
Mentoring is a tough task. Not only is it time consuming and often require you to step outside of your regular work to assist and develop...
Craig Risi
Oct 24, 20184 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


Why I hate the word "Testing"
This is going to sound pretty unusual for someone who has for a large part of his software development career had the world "Test" in his...
Craig Risi
Sep 7, 20183 min read


Transitioning non-technical teams to be technical – Part 4 - Measuring success and continued change
Now any transition would not be possible, if it were not able to measure how you are performing in that transition. You can put systems...
Craig Risi
Aug 24, 20184 min read


Transitioning non-technical teams to be technical – Part 3 - The mentoring process
Once you’ve set the vision, created an environment for tolerance and learning and tackle your recruitment to now cater for the technical...
Craig Risi
Aug 17, 20184 min read


Transitioning to technical testing – Part 2 – Recruiting Right
The best way to help transition your workforce to be more technical is to ensure you bring in technical people from the get go. Which...
Craig Risi
Aug 10, 20186 min read
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