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Programming Design Paradigm (PDP) Course Review : What, Why, and How to Get an A

Recently I noticed some discussions in NEU CS Facebook group about people’s comments on the PDP course. As always, there are people on both the positive and negative side. I’d like to join the discussion but I think writing in my blog would be better so people can read about it without joining the group. [...]

Theory of People’s Shopping Behavior

(photo by cbcs) It’s been several years since I thought about this theory, but I just have the idea to post it in my blog for public. I can say that I personally came up with this theory, and I didn’t copy this from anyone, though I don’t dismiss the possibility of someone else have [...]

Boston Wallpaper

Boston summer skyline wallpaper. 1280 x 800

What is Computer Science?

The misconception Probably the most common misconception about computer science is that people thought that the “computer” word in it is for “computer machines”, it’s NOT! I think the more appropriate name for the degree should be Computing Science. Why? Because although the field heavily uses computer machines as tools, at it’s core, it deals [...]

On Software Testing and Quality Assurance : Letter to Self

(photo by Cierpki) After weeks of software quality assurance course, it scares me how many software teams I’ve been in the past that don’t do some, or even most, of the testing and QA basics that I learned in this course. Finally, it’s the last week of the course and I’m going back to the [...]

Testing Automation Process and Tools

(creative photo by johnnyberg) As we’ve discuss in the previous post about testing in Agile software development environment, automation is a very important part to successfully to be agile. However, one doesn’t need to be familiar with Agile process at all to see the immediate benefit of automating the testing process. This time we’ll see [...]

trac Bug / Defect Tracking Software Review

trac is a very minimalistic defect tracking system that has been around since 2006 (six years ago). In internet years where software come and go in just 1-2 years, this is a very long time. Used by some of the big names such as NASA, WordPress, jQuery, and BitNami, trac is definitely worth to check. [...]

Agile Testing

(illustration by Rybson) Agile, the hottest software development lifecycle (SDLC) nowadays, was initially used in small projects and considered not suitable for medium and large projects. But now large companies have picked up the trend and adopting it into their major projects. By now we’ve agreed about the importance of testing in all stages of [...]

Outsourcing Testing and QA: Is it Feasible, Advisable, Risky?

(photo by spekulator) The exciting part of IT is, every several years there are always new trend in the industry where most of the people, even the experts and big companies, are riding the bandwagon. The new trend that promises that it will save costs, bring more productivity, and everything in between. The trend that [...]

Meet Our Two Friends, IEEE 730-2002 and IEEE 829-2008 Standards

(photo by lusi) Whenever we see numbers mixed with letters such as the title of this blog post we know that we’re up to something heavy. Be prepared, because this time we’ll talk about the IEEE standards for the Software Quality Assurance Plan (SQAP) and Test Plan. Standard? What is it? I tried to look [...]