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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


Is It Really An Emergency?
It’s easy to get caught up in the frantic excitement of trying to wrap up all your work tasks. However, there is no need to let some...
Craig Risi
Dec 20, 20174 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


The Secrets to Independent Test Design
In this last segment about making a scalable framework for your business, I want to talk about making your automation tests independent...
Craig Risi
Oct 31, 20174 min read
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