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Learn how to do 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
Three user group talks next week
Next week I’m in Oslo and Tallinn and I’ll be doing three user group talks – so this is a nice chance to meet up if you’re in the area. Breaking the TDD mould at XP Meetup, Oslo, Norway, October 24 Busting BDD Myths at NNUG, Oslo, Norway, October 25th…
acceptance testing Archive
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Twist 2.0: acceptance testing – the productive way
Posted on April 6, 2010 | 2 CommentsThoughtworks Studios were very kind to organise a Twist 2.0 demo for me this morning. I was very impressed with the new productivity features in the tool. Twist is the functional testing component of their lifecycle management tools, started with the idea to empower teams to manage complex test sets... -
Mind your boomerangs
Posted on April 5, 2010 | 3 CommentsThere is a point during the implementation of acceptance testing where it is enough to give you some value, but there is still a lot of friction with the tools. At that point, many teams start challenging whether the thing is paying off or not. Here is a simple way... -
Acceptance testing best practices
Posted on March 3, 2010 | No CommentsHere’s a video from a joint workshop that David Evans, Mike Scott and I organised yesterday at Skills Matter. We talked about strategies to get the most out of acceptance tests (especially with FitNesse) and organised a group workshop to review some good and bad examples of acceptance tests –... -
Are tools necessary for acceptance testing, or are they just evil?
Posted on March 1, 2010 | 7 CommentsWhile doing research for my new book, I was very surprised to find out that Jim Shore gave up on acceptance testing. I use his “describe-demonstrate-develop” process description all the time in my workshops, so I guess I better stop doing that. Jim Shore wrote: My experience with Fit and... -
How to effectively define a sufficient set of BDD scenarios/Acceptance tests?
Posted on January 6, 2010 | No CommentsI got this question from a reader today: How would you effectively define a sufficient set of If-When-Then scenarios to test for correctness what is potentially an extremely large set of transformations?
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