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03 Feb 2013
Their Job Is to Break It
Andrew Pontious, with second guest cohost Peter Hosey, talks about the strange and wacky world of quality assurance engineers.
Links:
- The Tabs and Spaces of Outrageous Fortune « Edge Cases
- Tabs vs. spaces redux « Idle Time
- A Little Slice of Windows in My IDE « Edge Cases
- Peter Hosey (boredzo) on Twitter
- Andrew Pontious tweet: “I wrote essay “Tales from the Code Front: Anatomy of the TADS 2.2 Plural-Singulars Utility” in (c) 1996. Style recognizably like Edge Cases.”
- Uli Kusterer tweet: “@apontious Ooooo… all your TADS exploits and lessons learned from TADS as a language sound like good future EC topics :-)”
- Here’s Your Reality Program « Penny Arcade
- Season 1, Ep. 11 - Here’s Your… (4th Panel) « Penny Arcade
- You Can’t Run a Script to Test Feel « Edge Cases
- Calculator Construction Set « Folklore.org: Macintosh Stories
- Instruments User Guide: Automated UI Testing
- Brett Victor, beast of burden
- Brett Victor - Inventing on Principle « YouTube
Rejected Episode Titles:
- You’re Addicted or You’re a Teetotaler
- Experiencing an Interactive Story Through Terminal.app
- Every Orthogonal Direction
- Isn’t Really Something You Want to Win
- Opening and Closing the CD Tray All Day
- Can’t They Get Some Lego Mindstorms Shit Up in Here?
- Drudgery and Hypervigilance
- Developers Love to File Bugs
- Now We’re Going to Dogfood It
- Sample Other People’s Dogfood Once in a While
- Someone Who Likes to Press the Button
- Definitely a Bus-Factor Problem
- They Need to Cut It Down
- They’re Not Just Drones
- Failures Roll Downhill
- They Tend to Have to Just Deal
- Automate the Hell out of Everything
- It’s a Downpayment, Instead of Technical Debt
- Test the App as a Black Box
- Sometimes It’s Just Straight-Up Broken