Posts Tagged ‘testing’
Background We build a bunch of stuff for RISC-V using the Dart official Docker image, but the RISC-V images can often arrive some time (days) after the more mainstream images[1]. That means that if we merge a Dependabot PR for an updated image it might well be missing RISC-V, causing the Continuous Delivery (CD) pipeline […]
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Tags: CD, CI, Dart, Debian, Docker, GitHub Actions, image, manifest, RISC-V, testing
Winners and losers
TL;DR Standardised tests like A Levels will inevitably have winners and losers, and in normal circumstances those people will usually know why they won or lost. For the losers it’s likely that they experienced some bad luck; but the key point here is that experience – they know why things didn’t work out. When that […]
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Tags: A-Level, algorithm, exams, GCSE, losers, luck, Ofqual, testing, winners
A/B Testing Into Mediocrity
I’ve been noticing that lots of the services I use online have been getting worse. My friends have been complaining too. I think I know why. A/B testing is a great way for product managers to make decisions based on data (rather than their own gut feel). But what happens when A/B testing meets the […]
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Tags: A/B, product management, testing, user experience, UX
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