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Testing in 2021, according to my Twitter bookmarks

My annual roundup of all the things about testing (and working as a programmer more generally) on Twitter that I found interesting enough to bookmark. “A picture is worth a thousand assertions“, quoting Angie Jones from the Test And Code podcast (but remember that all those assertions happen at once without being itemized) Angie Jones… Read more

Agile+DevOps: The Agile Acid Test and Observability

Recently I’ve been talking to various groups about “technical agility”. That is, the technical aspects of our processes and products that enable us to be “agile” in our software development. I’ve been finding it very useful to borrow terms and concepts from DevOps circles to make certain points. Perhaps unsurprising given how closely related they… Read more

Testability as observability and the Accessibility Object Model

I attended a talk today by Rob Dodson on some proposals for the Accessibility Object Model that are trying to add APIs for web developers to more easily manipulate accessibility features of their apps and pages. Rob went through quite a few examples of the benefits the proposed APIs would bring, from simple type checking… Read more