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What Hallway Usability Testing was coined by Joel Spolsky . JC calls it the spouse test. Always test your software. Duh! But, if your software has a GUI component, be sure to test it with real users. This doesn't have to be a...

Techniques for improving the runtime performance of your application. Background JC worked at a company that had service level agreements (SLA) for transaction response time and system throughput. Bill worked at a company that had to improve...

These are skills that are not core to what developers do, but are helpful to have. Spend the time now to learn these skills before you really need them. Image Editing Be able to make simple icon tweaks. Quickly clean up images for user...

What It Is Do we really need to describe it? Ideally you should have unit tests that exercises 100% of your code. What It Is Not A load tester End-to-end or integration tester. Why To reduce the number of bugs....