Archive for November, 2010

  • My article on lowering the barrier to entry for agile testing was published in the December issue of The Tester, the newsletter of the special interest group for testing of the British Computer Society. I’ll also be speaking at the next BCS SIGIST conference on December 8th on winning big...

    Lowering the barrier to entry for agile testing

    My article on lowering the barrier to entry for agile testing was published in the December issue of The Tester, the newsletter of the special interest group for testing of the British Computer Society. I’ll also be speaking at the next BCS SIGIST conference on December 8th on winning big...

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  • At the BDD and Agile Testing exchange conference on Friday we held an informal direction meeting for the Agile Testing UK user group. Many thanks to everyone who participated. For those of you who were too lazy or too drunk by that point, here are some of the conclusions:

    Agile Testing UK – plans for the future

    At the BDD and Agile Testing exchange conference on Friday we held an informal direction meeting for the Agile Testing UK user group. Many thanks to everyone who participated. For those of you who were too lazy or too drunk by that point, here are some of the conclusions:

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  • I was very fortunate to attend a workshop on Robot Framework given by Pekka Klarck in London a few weeks ago. I’ve written about Robot basics already on this blog so I won’t repeat myself, but here are some new ideas I picked up at the workshop:

    Robot framework revisited

    I was very fortunate to attend a workshop on Robot Framework given by Pekka Klarck in London a few weeks ago. I’ve written about Robot basics already on this blog so I won’t repeat myself, but here are some new ideas I picked up at the workshop:

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  • I attended two in-depth sessions on HTML5 at Oredev 2010 last week, which completely changed my perspective at it. After watching Giorgio Sardo present Microsoft’s plans for HTML5 and Robert Nyman present different HTML5 APIs, I feel that we’re moving ahead in technology but fear that we’re going back to...

    HTML5 – Netscape/IE 3 all over again?

    I attended two in-depth sessions on HTML5 at Oredev 2010 last week, which completely changed my perspective at it. After watching Giorgio Sardo present Microsoft’s plans for HTML5 and Robert Nyman present different HTML5 APIs, I feel that we’re moving ahead in technology but fear that we’re going back to...

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  • Neal Ford presented several ideas, tools and libraries for more productive Java unit testing at Oredev 2010.

    Three cool Java TDD ideas from Oredev

    Neal Ford presented several ideas, tools and libraries for more productive Java unit testing at Oredev 2010.

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