Every iteration my team explores ways of reducing time required for QA/Testing. We are a small team and do not have dedicated resources for Quality Assurance. That being said, what we can do is reduce the amount of defects found during that time. The best way to do that is …
One of the great things about Rational Team Concert is it brings an awareness to a Development team. Now outside of the CLM Dashboards and the thick clients that awareness continues in the forms of email and news feeds. Now everyone knows email but when left unchecked your Inbox can …
The easiest way to make a web developer scream is to tell them an internet explorer 8 user is having difficulty with their web page. Mostly because Internet Explorer 8 is not one browser engine. Rather it is a collection of browser engines that in my experience behave differently on …
Sandro Mancuso recently published a video on “Testing and Refactoring Legacy Code.” One of the key benefits for writing test for legacy code is it allows you to understand the existing code while reducing risk in changing it. It is a great video but a bit long so here are some of …
My team is currently in the process of documenting a project we inherited. The project was a skunkworks effort and documentation wasn’t as important as proving that it works. The developer who wrote it is no longer on the project and isn’t the most pleasant person to interact worth so …
When I first started developing web sites choosing a color was easy. There were not that many to choose from. Of course HTML at that time supported 16 million colors but any competent web developer would limit it to web safe colors. I remember working for a small startup and …
Over the years I have started many project and handed them off to others both successfully and unsuccessfully. Now as developers we develop and document our code/project as though we are going to get hit by a bus, meteor, or falling piano the next day. Then we are shocked when …
If you Google Aaron Cohen then you are going to see a significant amount of results. The lease of which are actually me. Here are a few of my previous blogs. Blogspot (http://aaronmcohen.blogspot.com) Developerworks (https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/amcohen/?lang=en)
