Help me A/B Test Amazon and win a poster
The guys from Popular have designed a nice poster illustrating the effects of Specification by Example on software projects. I will give away large copies of this poster (including free shipping) in return for the help in A/B testing Amazon. (click on the image for a larger version) To get…
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Designing good Cucumber feature files
Posted on May 18, 2011 | No CommentsAlister Scott wrote a really nice paper on designing good specifications with examples/bdd scenarios/acceptance tests – focused on Cucumber, but applicable to other tools as well. He captured how to evolve horrible scripts into something quite useful. I strongly recommend reading it, especially if you’re working with UI tests. Now... -
Winning big with Specification by Example: back in June
Posted on April 11, 2011 | No CommentsBy popular demand, I’m running my half-day workshop on Winning big with specification by Example again on 3rd of June in London. Book before 1 May and use the promo code “earlybird” to get 30% off the regular price. In the workshop, I present the results of the research conducted... -
AgileReq needs a few more good talks
Posted on April 10, 2011 | 2 CommentsThe conference I’m most excited about this year is Agile Req, The Conference for Product and Requirements Management in Agile and Lean processes. It will take place in London on September 9-11. The theme of this year’s conference is “Building software that matters”, and I’m helping to organise the programme.... -
Is prioritisation based on business value right?
Posted on April 4, 2011 | 2 CommentsAt the Scandinavian Developer Conference today in Göteborg, Alistair Cockburn spoke about “beyond agile: the new face of software engineering”. The main topic of his talk were five “chapters” that will according to Cocburn be a “broad base of software engineering in the next 20-50 years”, although I recognised most... -
Long term value of acceptance testing: Webinar, March 22nd
Posted on March 4, 2011 | No CommentsI’ll run a webinar on the long term value of acceptance testing on 22nd March. Most of the discussion on automated acceptance tests focuses on immediate benefits in development and defect detection or regression testing. But that’s not nearly all you can get from your tests. While working on my...
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