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Creating Tools for Representative Test Data

There's a conversation I've had with project managers many times over the decades. It usually starts when an ask for time in the plan to either source realistic test data or build a tool that...

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January 29, 2026
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Stochastic Parrots Are a Good Thing

If you've used ChatGPT or Claude, you've probably noticed something odd. Ask the same question twice, and you get different answers....

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January 28, 2026
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Modbus Driver and Rewrite Decisions

There’s an informal definition for Legacy Software that comes up time to time that cuts to the core of the matter: Legacy software is software that actually works....

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September 28, 2008
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DSXP OPC DA 2.0

Man I hate OPC. It just feels like software plumbing gone overboard in the COM based architecture it uses. The term “software plumbing” is used to describe software thats forms the basis of software...

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March 12, 2008
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Ranorex and Screenscraping/Automation

After many web searches looking into screen scraping technologies for automating legacy Windows applications, I came across a testing automation product from Ranorex....

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January 23, 2007
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