Archive for July, 2010

  • I came up with this yesterday while running my agile acceptance testing workshop for a client. Sounds familiar? Read How to implement UI Testing without shooting yourself in the foot

    The Sine of Death by UI Test Automation

    I came up with this yesterday while running my agile acceptance testing workshop for a client. Sounds familiar? Read How to implement UI Testing without shooting yourself in the foot

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  • The next meeting of the UK agile testing user group is on the 3rd of August in central London. Here are the details of the talk: Dan Leong on Clean Acceptance Tests This presentation discusses how our agile team renewed our focus and understanding of our acceptance tests when the...

    Clean Acceptance Tests, August 3rd, central London

    The next meeting of the UK agile testing user group is on the 3rd of August in central London. Here are the details of the talk: Dan Leong on Clean Acceptance Tests This presentation discusses how our agile team renewed our focus and understanding of our acceptance tests when the...

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  • There is a discussion on the UK agile testing mailing list on driving the development of an administrative application with BDD. It illustrates a problem that many teams have, so I’ll post my response here as well. Although we have a long way to go things are going OK at...

    Driving CRUD screens with BDD

    There is a discussion on the UK agile testing mailing list on driving the development of an administrative application with BDD. It illustrates a problem that many teams have, so I’ll post my response here as well. Although we have a long way to go things are going OK at...

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  • The Unite union (of the let’s screw BA travellers for several weeks every few months fame) created a Facebook group to stop jobs in the technology department being outsourced and offshored at Guardian News Media Ltd, publisher of the Guardian, the Observer and guardian.co.uk. According to the group web site,...

    Guardian pulling the plug?

    The Unite union (of the let’s screw BA travellers for several weeks every few months fame) created a Facebook group to stop jobs in the technology department being outsourced and offshored at Guardian News Media Ltd, publisher of the Guardian, the Observer and guardian.co.uk. According to the group web site,...

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  • Creating an Executable Specification from existing manual test scripts might seem as a logical thing to do when starting out with Specification by Example and Agile Acceptance Testing. Such scripts already describe what the system does, and the testers are running them anyway, so automation will surely help. Not really...

    Stop automating manual test scripts!

    Creating an Executable Specification from existing manual test scripts might seem as a logical thing to do when starting out with Specification by Example and Agile Acceptance Testing. Such scripts already describe what the system does, and the testers are running them anyway, so automation will surely help. Not really...

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