marksweston | 9 years ago | on: What I Learned from Executing Two Men
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marksweston | 9 years ago | on: A Design Defect Is Breaking iPhone 6 Pluses
Are they?
My 20 month old (i.e. out of warranty and with no Applecare policy) iphone 6+ started showing the symptoms a week and a half ago. The "Genius" at the Apple Store immediately recognised the symptoms and processed a free replacement (refurbished) phone without any prompting or negotiation on my part.
So while it's true that they are staying very quiet about it in public, it does seem that knowledge of the problem and a free replacement policy has been communicated within the company.
marksweston | 12 years ago | on: Why Bother With Cucumber Testing?
>Clients don't want to read Cucumber specs
Far too broad a generalization I think. I currently work with a non-technical CEO whose first encounter with Cucumber was when we were trying to re-specify a feature that we'd got wrong at the previous attempt. It was a revelation to him, and his initial burst of enthusiasm resulted in his going away and writing - unknown to us - Cucumber Features for about half of the functionality of the app. He's calmed down since then and leaves the actual writing to us, but Cucumber remains our go-to tool for resolving complicated requirements.
Obviously trying to force Cucumber on an unwilling/uninterested client is going be difficult and damaging to the relationship. Maybe if their first experience was a positive one in which using Cucumber helped resolve a communications problem rather than a technical ritual that they were forced to repeat for every user story, then attitudes might change?
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