Reviews - Chris Kenst

Reviews

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MacBook Pro 2012 and 2015 Performance Benchmarks

Apple tends to make small improvements with each iteration of it’s laptop lines. Between my personal mid-2012 MacBook Pro with Retina and my new(er) mid-2015 work MacBook Pro with Retina I didn’t think there was a much of a difference. Visually they are identical. Most of the

Exploratory Testing

Review of The Selenium GuideBook: Ruby Edition

tl;dr If you’ve ever wanted to learn Selenium but didn’t know where to start, The Selenium GuideBook is the place (doesn’t matter which edition you use, it’ll be good). Page Contents * 1 Learning Selenium * 2 Book Options * 3 The Book * 4 Applying the Book and

Import Complete

As I prepare to launch kenst.com as my main software engineering blog I wanted to get my favorite posts from My Technology Fetish. Unfortunately importing blogs into WordPress (or exporting them from Blogger) is an all or nothing event. I apologize to anyone who got trackbacks or notifications as

Blogging for your Career

Blogging for your Career

It may not seem obvious to the casual observer but one of the major ways the testing community disseminates information is through blogs. When practitioners want to find help or stay informed of the latest on goings, reflect on events, the medium-of-choice are blogs. We are able to disseminate and

Life as a Remote Worker

Life as a Remote Worker

My “life as a remote worker” has just begun. A few weeks ago, the company I work for decided it was time for my small team to let go of its office and work remotely on a full-time basis. To prepare for this change and gain a better understanding of

Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master’s insights on China, the U.S. and the World

Lee Kuan Yew has been the prime minister of Singapore (an island nation or city-state) for about 50 years and is credited with taking them from a developing country into one of the world’s largest economies as measured by Purchasing Power Parity. Singapore has an interesting story, transforming itself

The Role of Testing by James Bach

The following is a summary of the essay The Role of Testing by James Bach from the book Amplifying Your Effectiveness: Collected Essays. The essay goes like this: After not liking his time as a developer James thought being a testing manager would provide more wiggle room, since testing is

Exploratory Testing

Review: Exploratory Software Testing - Tips, tricks, tours and techniques to guide test design

Some of the first testing books I read were from James Whittaker’s How to Break Software series. Those books, like this one, are laid out in a practical manner with each chapter focused on a specific attack or approach making them easy to read, reference and apply. Perfect for

Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar by James Bach

I recently finished reading James Bach’s book Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar. I purchased the book mistakenly thinking it was a book on software testing (I didn’t really read the synopsis before buying it) but was pleasantly surprised after having read it. I’d heard Bach was an expert