Resources for Mobile, Agile and Cloud
Over the years, I have had the privilege of working with hundreds of developers. Overall, I have found them to be intelligent, witty, focused, incredibly funny… and also pretty isolated. Developers are most effective when they have long un-interrupted periods of time to concentrate on … [Read more...]
A couple weeks ago I had the opportunity to attend the StarEAST conference in Orlando. As in past years, it was inspiring to see so many qualified testers and QA managers all under the same roof. Speaker sessions were relevant, humorous and interesting, and from the list of topics, it's evident … [Read more...]
Ask any Eclipse developer and they will tell you that they prefer to do all of their work in Eclipse, rather than toggling between multiple systems. This is especially true for code reviews. So it makes perfect sense that we created an Eclipse plug-in for Collaborator, which gives you the … [Read more...]
In the famous book Peopleware, Tom de Marco and Timothy Lister name “Cult of quality” as the top item in their list of the six things needed to build effective software development teams. Cult of quality seems to strike a deep chord in us as human beings. Again and again I have experienced … [Read more...]
An interesting thing happened to me the other day. I was getting a pitch about a new product from a pretty well-known enterprise and the marketing person said: "We are members of the 2012 API Billionaire’s Club." Wait... what? I'd like to note that the product had nothing to do with APIs and … [Read more...]
In this guest post, Jamie Turner, CEO of 60SecondMarketer.com, talks about a number of businesses that have focused their attention on quality and provides metrics to show how beneficial this decision was for each company. If you’re reading this, it’s probably because you’re … [Read more...]
In this guest post, Jamie Turner, CEO of 60SecondMarketer.com, explains why quality, strategy and execution are all just as important in the marketing world as they are in software development. If you’ve been hanging around SmartBear long enough, you know we’re very focused on the … [Read more...]
Why one of Steve Jobs's guiding principles should also be yours. And also: What you can learn about code quality from Doom’s source code. In his revealing biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Issacson told of Jobs's fastidiousness when it came to product details, even the stuff people would not … [Read more...]
You might have noticed the recent publicity blitz on behalf of code.org. Or, you might be living under a rock. Code.org was formed earlier this year with the goal of providing young people with mentorship and education in the computer science industry. There are a number of organizations … [Read more...]
We talk a lot about the importance of quality products. But what does the word "quality" really mean? Is it a subjective or objective trait? And how can anyone strive to achieve high quality without first understanding what that term actually entails? Over the next few weeks, we … [Read more...]
