August 4, 2017

How to QA for a Consulting Firm

in: Business, Developers, Programming, Software Tagged: QA, quality assurance, software development, testing

ONE:  Don’t just “break the system” I remember my very first QA task when I started here three years ago.  I was testing a client’s internal employee management system.  I had never tested anything before, so I asked my project manager, “How should I QA the software?  What does that mean?”  He answered simply: “Do […]

May 16, 2017

Naming Things is Hard

in: Programming, Software Tagged: computer science, Programming tag, software development

So What? “There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.” – Phil Karlton. The above quote, while somewhat tongue in cheek, wears the ring of truth.  Naming things is hard.  Even when you put enormous effort into consistent and clear naming, you will invariably end up with some muddy […]