Tag: SAS

Regression Tests, Holding Their Value

Last week I wrote about how our test cases should be considered an asset and added to an ever growing library of regression tests. I had a few correspondents ask how this could be the case when their test cases would only work with specific data; the s…

SAS Proc Groovy in Action: JSON File Processing

Last year I took a bite of the newly SAS Proc Groovy to read JSON data since there was no direct “proc import” or “infile” or “libname” way to play with JSON. Here is an nice example from SAS official blog, by Falko Schulz where Proc Groovy is used to parse Twitter JSON file: How […]

Test Cases, an Investment

It never ceases to frustrate and disappoint me when I hear people talking of test cases as use-once, throwaway artefacts. Any team worth its salt will be building a library of tests and will see that library as an asset and something worth investing in…

‘Tis the Season of Lists

December is the time when the media industry tends to offer more lists than the other 11 months of the year. One that caught my eye was the TIME magazine Top 10 gadgets of 2013. These kind of lists are always good for spurring conversation down the pub…

NOTE: Reverse-Engineering Technical Debt

I wrote a couple of items about technical debt back in November (here and here). Sometimes you don’t choose to create debt for yourself, sometimes it’s inherited. In technical guises, debt can be inherited when teams merge, for instance.In such circums…