Category Archives: Planning

Estimating Testing Times: Glorified Fortune-Telling?

. Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law. – Douglas Hofstadter . . . . A good friend of mine is a trainer for CrossFit, and has been for years. For a long time he trained clients out of his house, but his practice started [...]

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Goodhart’s Law and Test Cases

I’d like to share a story about a glass factory in the Soviet Union. Being Soviet, the factory didn’t have to worry about the pesky things that a typical glass manufacturer has to pay attention to, like profits or appealing to customers. This factory was in the workers’ Paradise, after all! Their only charge was [...]

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