Gojko Adzic

I’m currently reading Exploring Requirements: Quality Before Design by Donald Gause and Gerald Weinberg. The book was written twenty years ago but it is still spot-on, which is really incredible for a software-development related book. Gause and Weinberg described an experiment from one of their workshops that was supposed to show how even the simplest things can cause a lot of misunderstanding. I honestly could not believe the results, so I decided to repeat it yesterday. The outcome absolutely amazed me. Continue Reading »

Here are the links and slides from my talk today at Skills Matter on testing web applications with Selenium.

Download Powerpoint slides from here.

• Selenium-core: selenium-core.openqa.org/
• Selenium-Remote Control: selenium-rc.openqa.org/
• Selenium-IDE: selenium-ide.openqa.org/
• Selenium-Grid: selenium-grid.openqa.org/
• Domain-specific testing languages presentation from Agile 2008 by Mickey Phoenix from Solutions IQ: www.solutionsiq.com/agile2008/agile-2008-domain.php
• StoryTestIQ: storytestiq.solutionsiq.com
• Cubic Test: www.cubictest.com
• WebTest Fixtures: fitnesse.info/webtest

Ivan Sanchez will put his slides online at www.isanchez.net.

We have worked out the schedule for opensource .NET talks at Skills Matter in London for the next few months. Here are the dates to note in your calendar – more detail on sessions will follow:

• 25th September: Script #, .NET response to Google Web Toolkit.
  Registration is now open
• 23rd October: Dependency injection with Castle Windsor
• 27th November: Asynchronous enterprise .NET applications with NServiceBus
• 17th December: Test driven development in .NET

We will probably do another Alt.NET evening in January like the one this July. This time we’ll have more time and hopefully a bigger venue. At the moment, we have a slot on 13th Jan available for this. If you attended the July talks, please let me know what you thought of the way that we organised it, what you liked, what you disliked, and what we could do to make it better next time.

I finally had some time to take a look at Concordion, an acceptance testing tool that I’ve heard about on several conferences. Concordion is an interesting alternative to FIT. It is developed by David Peterson and released under the Apache opensource license. Similar to FIT, Concordion uses HTML documents as an executable specification and requires some glue code (fixtures) to connect the executable elements of that specification to the domain code. Unlike FIT, Concordion does not require the specification to be in any particular format — you can write examples as normal sentences, without any restrictions. Continue Reading »

DbFit 1.1 is now available for download from SourceForge. Here are the most important changes: Continue Reading »