Jason Cohen on QA vs.QC

Jason Cohen of Smart Bear Software has a brilliant blog. His post on QA vs. QC is something I've talked about in the past. I love his example of the Pringles manufacturing line discarding off-color chips -- it's a concrete, understandable way to define the difference between QA and ...

Eight Reasons to Use a Time Tracking Tool

I just finished the time tracking application for Bale. This is a tool that is key to many other practices, but is very underutilized. (I wonder if this is because so many developers are worried about Big Brother type intrusions into their working habits? See below for why Big Brother ...

Visions of Tool Integration

It's an amazing thing when your development tools work together.

In the bad old days, we thought it was cool when the editor could work in concert with source control. It blew my mind when we first had source control with integrated bug tracking. (Wow, you can see the ...

Five Simple Ways to Kill More Bugs Today

Here are some simple things you can do - today - to find and prevent bugs in your code. These take very little effort to implement and do not cost any money. (And typically don't require management approval.)

  1. Turn on warnings.
  2. Make warnings break the build.
  3. Review your code.
  4. Get a ...

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