Thanks very much for inviting me to speak about agile acceptance testing and specification by example at HSBC today. It was great to chat to you and I must say that your video-conferencing system is really impressive. As promised, here are the slides and links from the presentation.
Concordion is an acceptance testing tool that enables developers, testers and business analysts to build executable specifications in free-form HTML. In this talk, I introduces Concordion.NET acceptance testing tool, the .NET port of Concordion, and demonstrate it with examples. The video was filmed during the third OpenSource .NET Exchange in July this year.
We had a fantastic discussion on delivering value with software yesterday at Alt.NET UK, centred around two proposed topics: “From concept to cash” and “Building software that matters”. Starting with questions on how do we get to cash quicker, how do we make sure that we’re building the most valuable software possible and how do we measure progress, this open space discussion touched upon some very interesting ideas to improve software processes. Continue Reading »
It was a real pleasure to speak at the 23rd Test Management forum on Wednesday – I hope that you found the talk and the discussion interesting and fun.
Here are the presentation and the links:
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I just packaged and released trinidad 1.0.9. Trinidad is an in-process test runner for FitNesse(Java) that allows you to execute fitnesse tests without running the server. Some cool things you can do with it are:
debug and execute tests from any IDE easily
integrate FitNesse tests into your continuous build through JUnit or Maven
wrap tests into Spring transactions and roll back automatically to make data driven tests instantly repeatable
Changes in version 1.0.9 are:
compatible with FitNesse release 20090709
a bugfix for maven plugin (class cast exception on fit.Counts when running a single test)
a new maven plugin example test project
Most of the Trinidad code is now in the FitNesse release anyway, but due to a packaging error one key trinidad class was missing from fitnesse release 20090709. Version 1.0.9 fitnesserunner.jar has only that class. From the next release of FitNesse, trinidad will not have a separate release. Maven plugin will still be a separate project in the near future (at least until FitNesse switches to a proper maven build and release process).
, my book (also see the PDF edition)
by Gary Klein
by Mary and Tom Poppendieck
by Gerald Weinberg and Donald C. Gause
