Edge Cases 35: Their Job Is to Break It

Andrew Pontious, with second guest cohost Peter Hosey, talks about the strange and wacky world of quality assurance engineers.

Links:

• The Tabs and Spaces of Outrageous Fortune « Edge Cases
• Tabs vs. spaces redux « Idle Time
• A Little Slice of Windows in My IDE « Edge Cases
• Peter Hosey (boredzo) on Twitter
• Andrew Pontious tweet: “I wrote essay “Tales from the Code Front: Anatomy of the TADS 2.2 Plural-Singulars Utility” in (c) 1996. Style recognizably like Edge Cases.”
• Uli Kusterer tweet: “@apontious Ooooo… all your TADS exploits and lessons learned from TADS as a language sound like good future EC topics :-)”
• Here’s Your Reality Program « Penny Arcade
• Season 1, Ep. 11 - Here’s Your… (4th Panel) « Penny Arcade
• You Can’t Run a Script to Test Feel « Edge Cases
• Calculator Construction Set « Folklore.org: Macintosh Stories
• Instruments User Guide: Automated UI Testing
• Brett Victor, beast of burden
• Brett Victor - Inventing on Principle « YouTube

Rejected Episode Titles:

• You’re Addicted or You’re a Teetotaler
• Experiencing an Interactive Story Through Terminal.app
• Every Orthogonal Direction
• Isn’t Really Something You Want to Win
• Opening and Closing the CD Tray All Day
• Can’t They Get Some Lego Mindstorms Shit Up in Here?
• Drudgery and Hypervigilance
• Developers Love to File Bugs
• Now We’re Going to Dogfood It
• Sample Other People’s Dogfood Once in a While
• Someone Who Likes to Press the Button
• Definitely a Bus-Factor Problem
• They Need to Cut It Down
• They’re Not Just Drones
• Failures Roll Downhill
• They Tend to Have to Just Deal
• Automate the Hell out of Everything
• It’s a Downpayment, Instead of Technical Debt
• Test the App as a Black Box
• Sometimes It’s Just Straight-Up Broken