As a manager, you can’t get deeply involved just because you are bored or because you do not trust your team. Those are the ...
MySQL's storage engine determines how data is stored. InnoDB (the default) is ACID-compliant with row-level locking, ideal for OLTP. MyISAM is best for read-only tasks, while MEMORY offers fast ...
The MEMORY storage engine stores all data in memory (RAM), and is used for fast lookup of data. InnoDB supports a buffer pool ...
Behavior-driven development (BDD) and keywords are both widely used techniques to facilitate automated testing. The approaches are similar in that tests can be written in a business-readable, ...
Most of the advice on meetings concerns how to run them. But what about when you’re attending the meeting rather than running it, and the meeting is endless or boring? Certainly, it can help to stay ...
It seems to defy all logic, but the best programmers have two usually undesirable traits: They’re lazy and dumb. That’s the point of a classic post by web developer and blogger Philipp Lenssen that I ...
As technology advances at an exponential rate, the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in software quality assurance (SQA) has become increasingly prominent. From automating mundane tasks to ...
Miscommunication happens all the time. The miracle, though, is not how often we miscommunicate, but how well we communicate given the multitude of ways we can misunderstand each other. This is ...
A set of vertices with each vertex having zero or more labels and zero or more properties/attributes. A set of edges with each edge being directed from one vertex to another vertex. Each edge has zero ...
Collaboration is a key part of how agile teams work. Quite often, to work effectively to meet commitments in a self-organizing, cross-functional team, you need to be creative as well. While teams can ...
Everybody knows that the later you find defects, the more expensive they are to fix. Everybody knows that, right? Well, back in 1976, a software engineer named Barry Boehm said defects are more ...