December 29th, 2022

It took me a long time to realize the Rx libraries [0] are most useful for UI state and not useful for data access (and perhaps even harmful). For data access, traditional pulling/enumerating methods should be used, but for UI state, Rx observables are downright magical.

[0] "Rx Libraries" refers to the libraries published on https://reactivex.io/

December 12th, 2022

One area where software testers can add value is in providing an external voice questioning software requirements. I think this value addition is best achieved when the tester is truly neutral to the product.