Low-hanging Fruit

业界,尤其是测试界,最近几年反复被提及的,除了Agile/Scrum/TDD,可能就是Exploratory Testing(ET)了。个人觉得,不过是新瓶装旧酒,强调的无非还是“学习-积累-应用”这一套行之四海的方法。有心人一定或多或少都用ET的方法进行过测试。不过事实就是这样,任何事一旦套上名头,唬起人来似乎也格外有自信。

不过我今天想说的可不是ET,而是一种不需要花费大量心力和时间,但也能收获一些bug的方法。也就是人们常说的Low-hanging Fruit,我个人简称为LHF :smile:.

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Dogfight: Apple vs. Google

换了新住处后,上下班都得坐公交。本以为时间会更紧张,不想等车坐车的时间倒多了出来。把几本一直断断续续看的书看完了。

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Do We Still Need Test Spec

做weekly retrospective时,赫然发现本周大大小小拢共做了16个test case的review(包括test specification和test report),且大部分都集中在后半周。直接后果就是,每天的日程表都被会议占得满满的,只有晚上到家才有时间提前看材料和提comments。没办法,每个sprint快结束时,都是各个团队最忙碌的时候–要抓紧时间把backlog上的任务都消灭掉。这么多的specification(abbr. spec),着实花了不少author和reviewer的时间。不禁想起人们常提的那个问题:

软件测试还需要测试用例规范吗?

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Inner Loop Power Control II

Inner Loop Power Control exists on both uplink and downlink. For the uplink, Node B will send TPC(Transmit Power Control) command to UE which would adjust its own transmission power accordingly. Vice versa for the downlink.

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Inner Loop Power Control I

Power Control(PC) is one of the most important features in UMTS technology. Here I’d like to introduce the Inner Loop Power Control(ILPC).

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