Archive for June, 2007

A macbookpro sure slim diet

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

As my current contract with Telstra comes to a close, test summary reports are signed off and my brain approaches shutdown mode in preparation for a 5 week holiday, I decided to give my Mac Book Pro a much needed crash diet. Like owner like macbook, this beast was getting a ...

The gambler’s fallacy killed by pure maths

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

Statistics (and the ability to gather/present) are an essential tool for performance testing. At the time of learning basic stats in high school and university I was plagued with the problem of not seeing the real life application of these tools. Sure, exercises and scenarios conducted simulated real life, but ...