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Learn about 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 October, 2010
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UK TMF talk slides
Posted on October 29, 2010 | No CommentsHere are my slides from the talk on Living Documentation this week at the UK Test management forum. Continuous Validation, Living Documentation and other tales from the dark side on Prezi -
Wicked JUnit Date trick
Posted on October 21, 2010 | 3 CommentsSteve Freeman showed a neat unit testing trick at JAX/DevCon London last month, that was not mentioned in his and Nat Pryce’s great book on TDD. His presentation was mostly on getting more out of unit tests by making it easier to read the tests and understand errors. One of... -
Specification game writeups
Posted on October 17, 2010 | No CommentsAndy Brown and Simon Prior have done interesting write-ups of the specification game exercise that Dave de Florinier and I ran at Agile Cambridge on Thursday. The exercise is a variant of the Progressive.NET 09 exercise, more focused on collaboration aspects, and is now the standard part of my specification... -
How Google does test engineering
Posted on October 15, 2010 | 10 CommentsJames Whittaker, test engineering director at Google, talked yesterday at the Agile Cambridge conference on how Google does ‘Test Engineering’. He likened software testing to healthcare – in particular patient care in hospitals. Whittaker started by saying that software development was like manufacturing 20 years ago, and that the cost... -
Agile certification and quantification is a myth
Posted on October 13, 2010 | 5 CommentsAt the Agile Testing Days conference last week in Berlin Rob Lambert presented on how excessive structure kills creativity and what that means for agile software development. One of his main arguments was that making agile development palatable to larger companies pretty much defeats the key points of the Agile...
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