Spec by Example mentoring programme
Specification by example mentoring is aimed at individuals who know the basics, want to improve and need support, knowledge and ideas not available online or through training courses. First group starts 1 June.
acceptance testing Archive
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Let’s change the tune
Posted on August 4, 2010 | 25 CommentsAs a community, we’re very guilty of using technical terms and confusing business users. If we want to get them more involved, we have to use the right names for the right things and stop confusing people. This lesson is obvious in acceptance tests and we know that we need... -
Stop automating manual test scripts!
Posted on July 19, 2010 | 1 CommentCreating 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... -
Anatomy of a good acceptance test
Posted on June 16, 2010 | 11 CommentsThe long term benefits of agile acceptance testing come from live documentation – a description of the system functionality which is reliable, easily accessible and much easier to read and understand than the code. In order to be effective as live specification, acceptance tests have to be written in a... -
The perfect agile test management tool
Posted on May 4, 2010 | 1 CommentDavid Evans and I facilitated a session on designing a killer agile test management tool last week at the UK Test Management Forum, with the goal of learning what are the biggest currently unsolved problems for agile teams in the area of testing at the moment. So for any tool... -
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...
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