Bonnie Bailey

Bonnie Bailey is a software test engineer for a health care information technology company. Bonnie is an avid reader of fiction and non-fiction, including software design, testing and development, disruptive and emerging technologies, business leadership, science, and medicine. She also enjoys writing.

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Internet Archaeologists Dig Up Websites Stuck in Time

Bonnie Bailey writes on the efforts of Internet archaeologists to document old websites in order to preserve the birth of Internet culture. Technology professionals have the rare privilege to wax nostalgic about a history we helped make, while still actively making that history today.

Target's Website Snafu Suggests More Exploratory Testing

Target recently found itself in the news over a mislabeled product on its website that generated embarrassing results. The website snafu proves the importance of having an exploratory test team that manually tests in a production environment.

World’s Fastest Supercomputer Goes Obsolete after Five Years

How’s this for a testament to the transience of modern technology? The world’s fastest supercomputer, fewer than five years ago, was decommissioned on March 31, 2013, and is set to be dismantled because its technology is obsolete.

Evernote's Security Breach Leads to Leaked Passwords

Another day, another security breach. Following in the footsteps of popular hacked services Dropbox and LinkedIn, software and service vendor Evernote announced this March that it had suffered a data breach and suspected that usernames, email addresses, and encrypted passwords had been stolen.

Emergent Database Technologies and the New Platform War

In the not-so-distant past, there was a war of railroad track gauges, a war of electric power currents, and a war of videotape formats. Now, rumblings of another format war are pealing through a formerly stable platform, and this one could directly impact those who build and test software.

Why Testers Need to Become More Technical

As projects become more technical, testers themselves must adapt and become more technical. With technologies getting more complex each day, testers need to know how to identify risks and find problems deep within the technology stack.

Four Tips for Assembling a Great Test Team

When recruiting new team members, remember that you may not be marrying the folks you hire, but you are tying your success in with theirs. So it’s vital to be thorough in evaluating potential recruits and to hire slowly. Bonnie Bailey presents four tips for assembling a great test team.

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