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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 April, 2010
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Acceptance tests are not a by-product of development
Posted on April 28, 2010 | 4 CommentsLong term maintenance cost is one of the biggest issues that teams face today when implementing agile acceptance testing. Tests that are just written and automated without any long term planning are guaranteed to cost you more than they are worth. But then again, a properly designed testing framework saves... -
Jeff Sutherland: How to make your team hyperproductive
Posted on April 20, 2010 | 9 CommentsAt the Open Volcano 10 openspace conference today, Jeff Sutherland talked about systematically achieving hyperproductivity. “Everyone can get there, without exception, it’s actually not hard at all once you know what to do”, said Sutherland, giving several examples from research of real projects. -
Effective exercises for teaching TDD
Posted on April 19, 2010 | 7 CommentsAt the Goosgaggle event last month, David Harvey and I ran an open space session on teaching TDD through exercises effectively. My goal with this session was to learn what are the good exercises, what’s common for them, and why they are effective. There were roughly 20 people in the... -
Liz Keogh: learning through testing
Posted on April 16, 2010 | No CommentsSpeaking at the BBC QA Day today, Liz Keogh said that learning is often a constraint on software projects. Software projects deal with many risks and unknowns as they are mostly about new product development. Doing a project which took eight months again, with the same people and same technology,... -
How to implement UI testing without shooting yourself in the foot
Posted on April 13, 2010 | 12 CommentsI’m currently interviewing lots of teams that have implemented acceptance testing for my new book. A majority of those interviewed so far have at some point shot themselves in the foot with UI test automation. After speaking to several people who are about to do exactly that at the Agile...
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