Since I wrote my post on “The Road Back from COVID19″ we have made lots of progress on two out of the three pillars: masks and tracing. Masks went from a discussion of their merits to being mandatory to wear in public in several states, including New York. Tracing went from a hodgepodge of approaches to an API supported by both Google and Apple. On the third pillar of testing, however, we are massively behind. It is by now well understood that the virus is transmissable for several days befor...

Since I wrote my post on “The Road Back from COVID19″ we have made lots of progress on two out of the three pillars: masks and tracing. Masks went from a discussion of their merits to being mandatory to wear in public in several states, including New York. Tracing went from a hodgepodge of approaches to an API supported by both Google and Apple. On the third pillar of testing, however, we are massively behind. It is by now well understood that the virus is transmissable for several days befor...

Welcome back to Tech Tuesday. We are still in the process of wrapping up the initial series on programming. In the interim review I had identified a couple of high level questions that had not yet been answered dealing with code that has been written. Just before the end of the year we looked at bugs and debugging and I mentioned that there are two types of testing: unit testing and black box testing. More on these today. One key purpose of testing is to identify bugs before they are exposed ...

Welcome back to Tech Tuesday. We are still in the process of wrapping up the initial series on programming. In the interim review I had identified a couple of high level questions that had not yet been answered dealing with code that has been written. Just before the end of the year we looked at bugs and debugging and I mentioned that there are two types of testing: unit testing and black box testing. More on these today. One key purpose of testing is to identify bugs before they are exposed ...