Teatime: Maintainable Code, MV*, and Backbone

Welcome back to Teatime! This is a weekly feature in which we sip tea and discuss some topic related to quality. Feel free to bring your tea and join in with questions in the comments section. Tea of the week: Royal Milk Tea. In Japan, when they want black tea, they buy it powdered with milk powder already added so they don’t have to go buy milk. This stuff is super simple to make since it’s instant, but it tastes amazing. Continue reading

Teatime: The Three Ways of Devops

Welcome back to Teatime! This is a weekly feature in which we sip tea and discuss some topic related to quality. Feel free to bring your tea and join in with questions in the comments section. Tea of the week: I’m feeling herbal today, chilling out with a refreshing cup of mint tea. I grow my own mint, but you can find good varieties at your local grocery store in all probability. Continue reading

Teatime: Performance Testing Basics with jMeter

Welcome back to Teatime! This is a weekly feature in which we sip tea and discuss some topic related to quality. Feel free to bring your tea and join in with questions in the comments section. Tea of the week: Black Cinnamon by Sub Rosa tea. It’s a nice spicy black tea, very like a chai, but with a focus on cinnamon specifically; perfect for warming up on a cold day. Continue reading

Teatime: Testing Application Performance

Welcome back to Teatime! This is a weekly feature in which we sip tea and discuss some topic related to quality. Feel free to bring your tea and join in with questions in the comments section. Tea of the week: Still on a chai kick from last week, today I’m sipping on Firebird’s Child Chai from Dryad Teas. I first was introduced to Dryad Tea at a booth at a convention; I always love being able to pick out teas in person, and once I’d found some good ones I started ordering online regularly. Continue reading

Teatime: SQL Testing

Welcome back to Teatime! This is a weekly feature in which we sip tea and discuss some topic related to quality. Feel free to bring your tea and join in with questions in the comments section. Tea of the week: I like a nice, spicy chai in the winter to warm me up, especially when I’m grappling with rough questions like today’s topic. Rather than subject myself to excessive caffeine on a cold afternoon, I’m sipping on Rooibos Chai from Sub Rosa Tea. Continue reading

Teatime: Continuous Deployment

Welcome back to Teatime! This is a weekly feature in which we sip tea and discuss some topic related to quality. Feel free to bring your tea and join in with questions in the comments section. Tea of the week: An old standby, Twinings Ceylon Orange Pekoe. There’s no orange flavor in it; the Orange refers to the size of the leaves. It’s a good staple tea I can find in my local supermarkets, solid and dependable — just like a deployment pipeline should be. Continue reading

Teatime: What kinds of testing should I do?

Welcome back to Teatime! This is a weekly feature in which we sip tea and discuss some topic related to quality. Feel free to bring your tea and join in with questions in the comments section. Tea of the week: It’s been a stressful (and cold!) week as I pre-write this, so I’m chilling out with some Toasted Caramel Rooibos from Sub Rosa Teas. Today’s topic: What kind of testing should I do? Continue reading