Best piece of software in the world

Today, I wondered what was the best piece of software in the world. That sounds very ambitious, after all, it has to be better than most video games, operating systems and web services. At first, I thought about some cutting edge military research, maybe ARPANET. The precursor to Internet, is a great software device. There’s [...]

Best RTS so far

Amongst video games, the Real-Time Strategy type has become quite popular. Game industry is even about to give birth to a new genre, Real-Time Tactics, featuring titles like Company of Heroes or Ground Control II.
At the beginning, there was the chess game, which offers a great two players, turn-based, reflexion game. Then, turn-based wargames [...]

Educating our kids

Children nowadays can become a big source of trouble. This is mostly due to their education or lack of. I view education as a software system operating in the home environment.
The parents specify the appropriate hours to eat, to sleep and to have fun. The children use this system, take advantage of it if possible [...]

Social Bookmarking

I regularly use StumbleUpon to discover new websites I will probably like and del.icio.us to bookmark and share them but I don’t really use their user community features.
I have a LinkedIn account to stay in touch with past colleagues career paths and also a Google Reader account to keep track of blogs I read.
But this [...]

Software Requirements Specification Checklist

I have a small checklist to verify that the software requirements specification is useable by the developer and the tester.
Nature of the SRS:  Does the SRS answer the following questions ?
 
Functionality – What is the software supposed to do ?
External interfaces – How does the software interact with people, the system’s hardware, other hardware, and [...]

Seven Software Testing Videos

I’d like to make a rapid review of seven software testing videos I’ve found on Google Video.

Becoming a software testing expert – 19954 views – 88 ratings
Beyond Test Driven Development, Behaviour Driven Development – 16775 views – 86 ratings
Agile Testing – 3647 views – 34 ratings
Proving Our Worth: Quantifying the Value of Testing – 4425 [...]

Software Testing

Software testing is a crucial part of the software development environment. Amongst the software life cycle processes, it plays a key role in the development process and in the verification process.
The development process goes like this: requirements analysis, architectural design, detailed design, coding, unit testing, installation and finally acceptance support. This last activity [...]

Becoming a software development expert

After reading James Blach’s article on Becoming a software testing expert, I thought the web was lacking a good blog article on “becoming a software development expert”, so here it is.
Becoming an expert in anything is never easy and takes a lot of time and attention. There are three ways to become an [...]