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Learn how to do Specification by Example
I’m speaking here:
- Agile Practitioners 2012, Tel Aviv, Israel, 30-31 January 2012
- Software Passion Summit, Göteborg, Sweden, March 19-20, 2012
- Scandinavian Developers conference, Göteborg, Sweden, April 17, 2012
- Dutch Testing Conference, Bussum, NL, 18 April
- Testing and Finance, London, 17 May 2012
Spec by Example workshop in London – March 15-16
The best course I’ve attended in my career. I loved that the instructor challenged us to think for ourselves and did not give us the answers straight away – Trond Svensen, SITS
Archive for September, 2009
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DDD and relational databases – the value object dilemma
Posted on September 30, 2009 | 4 CommentsValue objects are one of the basic building blocks of object domain driven design. The pattern makes manipulating objects very easy and is very easy to understand. Yet often I see teams with a strong preference to entities, making clean design harder to sustain and system much harder to write... -
StickyMinds on Bridging the Communication Gap: must read for anyone contemplating agile development
Posted on September 28, 2009 | No CommentsSticky Minds published a review of Bridging the Communication Gap today. As a tester, this book has been quite useful to me. It explains where the roles of other people, besides developers, fit in the agile process. I believe this is an important book and is a must-read for anyone... -
Saving the game in enterprise software
Posted on September 28, 2009 | 5 CommentsThe most important take-away idea from CITCON Europe this year for me was probably building ‘save game’ functionality as an integral feature in software systems. Antony Marcano talked about this, not as part of the official programme but over beers which is another example of how informal chatting at conferences... -
Top 10 reasons why teams fail with Acceptance Testing
Posted on September 24, 2009 | 10 CommentsI facilitated an openspace session on acceptance testing and collaboration between business people, developers and testers at CITCON Europe last week. We started with a list of five common reasons why I’ve seen teams fail with acceptance testing but added five more during the discussion, so here’s an expanded top... -
Joe the Developer doesn’t need a certificate
Posted on September 22, 2009 | 30 CommentsCertification in software seems to be one of those hot topics that never die. This phoenix recently rose again in the form of Certified Scrum Developer announcements and discussions that followed on the agile developer skills mailing list. A recurring theme in the discussion is the mythical Joe the Developer,...
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