How to Do Software QA Properly
A practical guide to end-user software QA: structured test coverage, workflow testing, regression testing, exploratory testing and writing useful bug reports.
Read articleArticles
Thoughts on software engineering, testing and making software better.
-
-
When Robin Hood Is the Villain
A personal look at Toby Venables' Hunter of Sherwood trilogy, where Guy of Gisburne becomes the hero and Robin Hood is reimagined as a dangerous villain.
Read article -
Cathedrals, Shield Walls and the Making of England
How Ken Follett's Kingsbridge novels, Bernard Cornwell's The Last Kingdom and The Yorkshire Knights brought medieval England to life and inspired a deeper interest in its history.
Read article -
The Cost of Global State
A practical Delphi perspective on the hidden cost of global state, including global forms, shared data modules, singletons, invisible dependencies and tightly coupled application state.
Read article -
Forms Are Not Your Application
A practical Delphi perspective on keeping forms focused on presentation and coordination instead of letting UI classes become the application itself.
Read article -
Software Architecture in Delphi: SOLID, Coupling and the Art of Keeping Things Separate
A practical guide to SOLID principles, coupling and cohesion in Delphi, with examples of how to keep responsibilities clear and code easier to maintain.
Read article -
Why Developers Make Terrible Testers of Their Own Software — and What to Do About It
Why software developers become blind to bugs and usability problems in their own applications, and practical ways to counter that blindness.
Read article -
Unicode, Character Sets and Text Encodings
A developer's quick reference to Unicode, character sets and text encodings, with practical UTF-8, UTF-16 and Delphi notes.
Read article -
Image Fingerprinting with Perceptual Hashes (pHash)
A practical reference to perceptual hashes, Hamming distance and detecting similar or duplicate images.
Read article -
Multithreading — The Delphi Way
Martin Harvey's 14-chapter guide to multithreading in Delphi, covering thread creation, synchronisation, deadlocks and practical examples with source code.
Read article