Sunday, October 27, 2019

Who Goes There

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Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell Jr. My rating: 5 of 5 stars An excellent short book for October as Halloween quickly approaches. A l...
Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Don't Integrate Before Unit Testing

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Under normal circumstances components are separately unit-tested. As they pass their unit tests, a separate team integrates them into meanin...
Monday, October 14, 2019

Angle of Attack

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I've been reading Flying Beyond the Stall: The X-31 and the Advent of Supermaneuverability  by Douglas A. Joyce. Very quickly what struc...
Sunday, October 06, 2019

Spaceman

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Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe by Mike Massimino My rating: 5 of 5 stars Wow! Who h...
Wednesday, October 02, 2019

Starman Jones

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Starman Jones by Robert A. Heinlein My rating: 5 of 5 stars I loved the concern that Max had for his library book. That really hooked me...
Monday, September 30, 2019

SuperFreakonomics

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SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven D. Levitt My rating: ...
Friday, September 27, 2019

Achieve Effective Test Coverage

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In spite of the fact that testing cannot prove correctness, it is still important to do a through job testing. Metrics exist to determine ho...
Thursday, September 26, 2019

Use Effective Test Completion Measures

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Many projects proclaim the end of testing when they run out of time. This may make political sense, but it is irresponsible. During test ...
Wednesday, September 25, 2019

The Dictator's Handbook

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The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita My rating: 5 of 5 stars I was ex...
Monday, September 23, 2019

Use McCabe Complexity Measure

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Although many metrics are available to report the inherent complexity of software, none is as intuitive and as easy-to-use as Tom McCabe...