Ministry of Testing

Testing data quality effectively

In some ways, data and its quality can seem strange to people used to assessing the quality of software. There’s often no observable behaviour to check and little in the way of structure to help you ...
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Are You Missing a Data Frame? The Power of Data Frames in Java

Vladimir Zakharov explains how DataFrames serve as a vital tool for data-oriented programming in the Java ecosystem. By ...

OpenAI says new coding model helped build itself

The new coding model released Thursday afternoon, entitled GPT-5.3-Codex, builds on OpenAI’s GPT-5.2-Codex model and combines insights from the AI company’s GPT-5.2 model, which excels on non-coding ...

Six months after explosion, Pennsylvania mill town sees hope but a history of disappointment

Six months ago, an explosion at the U.S. Steel Clairton Coke Works killed two people. It also heightened the stakes in the life of a western Pennsylvania mill town even as a new mayor tries to raise ...